Water Solubility of BIS (2-Ethylhexyl) Hydrogen Phosphite

摘要

Chemical warfare defense research routinely utilizes simulants for chemicalagents. This substitutive approach offers several advantages. Specifically, procedures relying on simulants can be much less rigid and dangerous than those which use live agents. Simulants, in contrast to lethal agents, can be more readily disseminated in the open environment. Thus, with appropriate non-toxic simulants, one can contaminate a large piece of military equipment, and study the decontamination (simulant removal) of the impacted device in a non-lethal setting. Such a decontamination exercise would be profoundly more difficult if one were to use live chemical agents.