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From the Department of Organic Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
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A colorimetric method for detection and assay of mustard gas in urine after addition of thymolphthalein is reported. The detection limit was 80 ng/ml of llrine. Mustard gas could also be detected in urine after extraction with gas chromatography using FID detector. The detection limit was 10 ng/ml. In addition, thiodiglycol, a metabolite of mustard gas, could be converted to mustard with concentrated HCl at 100°C and detected with gas chromatography.
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