— -- Sarin is a colorless, odorless liquid nerve agent that possesses physical properties similar to those of water. While highly lethal, it evaporates relatively slowly. But once in the ...

View Sarin Fast Facts at CNN and learn more information about the man-made nerve agent developed for chemical warfare.

Clear, colorless, tasteless, odorless and deadly. Sarin – which weapons inspectors say has been used in chemical attacks in Syria – is a poisonous liquid that can easily evaporate and change ...

Yesterday, the world watched in horror as a deadly chemical agent—likely sarin gas, one of the most-toxic chemical weapons in existence—was unleashed on unsuspecting civilians, including ...

What is sarin? A look at the deadly nerve gas thought to be behind the attack that killed more than 80 people in Syria's Idlib province. Sarin was invented by accident in Germany in the late 1930s.

A suspected sarin gas attack in Syria last year killed an estimated 40 to 150 people, and injured hundreds of others, as Business Insider's Dave Mosher reported at the time.. What sarin does to people ...

Sarin is known to cling to the skin and clothes and to be able to sicken individuals who encounter it that way (as was the case among first responders referenced in a declassified French report ...