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If you want a good idea if something dangerous is up, probably involving [[Applied Phlebotinum]], look for workers wearing Hazmat Suits.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' 2nd Edition had both chemsuits (regular sealed suits) and military X-E suits which were needed to protect against Seven-7 nerve gas.
** In the adventure ''Silver Angel'' the [[Player Character|Player Characters]]s could sneak into a facility by dressing themselves in "hazard suits" and pretending to be hazardous materials transporters.
* ''[[Champions]]''
** In the adventure "What Rough Beast", the characters can find and use radiation suits against the deadly radiation field given off by the monster.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Probably the earliest example of a [[Hazmat Suit]] was the [[wikipedia:Plague doctor|Plague Doctor]] outfit worn in Medieval Europe during Black Death epidemics. It consisted of thick leather gloves and boots, heavy oilcloth cloak and pants covering the whole body, and the iconic "bird-man" mask which gave rise to one of the most popular Venetian masks around, the eponymous ''[[Gratuitous Italian|medico della peste]]''. The mask included the goggles covering the eyes and aromatic herbs in the beak, that supposedly ward off the plague "miasma" and certainly masked the stench of decaying bodies and leaking buboes of the patients. Apparently, these worked quite well.
** Virtually none of the user's skin was exposed while wearing it, so the risk of being bitten by plague-carrying fleas was much lower.
* Ironically, asbestos firesuits turned out to be hazardous in themselves as the very material protecting firefighters threatened to kill them in the longer term with incurable and deadly abesteosis.
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