Originally posted by Sauron
Insufficient information to hazard a guess.
Most "tear gases" are not gases at all. CS and CN are both solids.
Many substances are lachrymatory but only a few are satisfactory as "tear gases" for military or civil law enforcement purposes.
Ironically these useful and non-lethal agents are now classified as "cheamical warfare agents" under the utterly stupid and useless CWC treaty
organization. Go figure.
The red solution could be a lot of things, but bromine comes to mind.
Some possibilities: bromoacetone was an early teargas but found to be too toxic and passed out of fashion early on, replaced by CN
(chloroacetophenone).
But, lots of things are red and irritating. |