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CB Riot Control Filling

I thought the same thing, but they mark their CS items with a CS in a circle. So I am thinking it is different. Maybe closer to CN?

Joe
 
There are numerous C agents, including CNB which is Chloroacetophenane, Carbon Tetrachloride and Benzene.

The only reference i found to CB was on a French website, nothing appears elswhere.

Pete
 
CB is Orthochlorobenzilmalnnitrile

See document for the French "Grenade a fusil et a main lacrymogene au CB Mle F2".
 

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I'll search some documents tomorrow at work and see if i can find why it's marked C.B as opposed to CS

Pete
 
Should have the info later today, but for now, here's another example of a French CB filled RCA grenade.

Cheers

Pete

French CB grenade.jpg
 
The information i've been provided with is as follows:

CB is the same as CS, just a different designation.

CS gets it's designation from the 2 chemists that first synthised the compound 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile in 1928, Ben Corson and Roger Stoughton.

I am told from a reliable source in the French defence industry that the CB designation comes from the C and B within the compound 2-ChloroBenzalmalononitrile.

Took a while to get this, but hope it's of use.

Cheers

Pete
 
Some additional information arrived last night.

In regard to French RCA grenades, whilst both designations (CS and CB) are 2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile (CS), in the case of grenades marked CB, they are filled with a more pure product than those marked CS. The CS marked grenades are filled with CS and 5% silica and as such will disseminated a slightly less concentrated product.

Cheers


Pete
 
Pete,

Good stuff ... thanks for digging this stuff up. I find these little pieces of information very interesting, even if they don't make all that much of a difference in the EOD world.

Joe
 
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