Associations to the word «Tabun»

Wiktionary

TABUN, noun. (organic compound) An extremely toxic nerve agent; a clear, tasteless liquid, molecular formula C5H11N2O2P.
TABUN, noun. A clay oven, shaped like a truncated cone, with an opening at the bottom from which to stoke the fire.

Dictionary definition

TABUN, noun. The first known nerve agent, synthesized by German chemists in 1936; a highly toxic combustible liquid that is soluble in organic solvents and is used as a nerve gas in chemical warfare.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope