Tabun

Tabun may refer to:

Tabun Cave, a cave in Israel where remains of Neanderthal Man were found

Tabun oven, a clay oven used in the Middle East to make bread

Tabun (nerve agent), the first nerve agent chemical weapon to be discovered

Tabun-Khara-Obo crater, a meteor impact crater in Mongolia

Peter Tabuns, a Canadian politician and activist

A Russian and Polish word for "herd of horses" (especially a wild or uncontrolled one): see for example Budyonny (horse)

A Barangay of Angeles City in the Philippines

A Barangay of Mabalacat City in the Philippines

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Tabun (nerve agent)

Tabun or GA is an extremely toxic chemical substance. It is a clear, colorless, and tasteless liquid with a faint fruity odor. It is classified as a nerve agent because it fatally interferes with normal functioning of the mammalian nervous system. Its production is strictly controlled and stockpiling outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993. Tabun is the first of the G-series nerve agents along with GB (sarin), GD (soman) and GF (cyclosarin).

Although pure tabun is clear, less-pure tabun may be brown. It is a volatile chemical, although less so than either sarin or soman.

Tabun can be destroyed with bleaching powder, though the poisonous gas cyanogen chloride is produced.