Investigation into the Fate of Phosgene Contained within

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Chemical Munitions Dumped into Beaufort’s Dyke

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Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

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Table of contents

Executive summary 1

List of figures___ 3

List of tables_____ 4

1 Introduction 5

2 Scope and limitations 7

3 The physical environment of Beaufort’s Dyke. 8

4 The physicochemical and toxicological properties of phosgene 14

5 Discussion 20

6 Conclusions 23

7 List of references 24

APPENDIX A Deep Sea Dumping of 5 inch rockets at Beaufort’s Dyke 27

Initial distribution 31