U.S. ship Cape Ray finally finished neutralizing 600 metric tons of chemical components from Syria, averting threatened air strikes on Syria, the Pentagon reported on Monday.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) led the destruction of the chemicals. It appointed several nations with the task of neutralizing the chemical components, according to reports.

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The U.S. received the most dangerous components because it possesses the needed equipment - a mobile hydrolysis system.

The metric tons of chemicals were composed of 581.5 metric tons of DF and 19.8 metric tons of HD. These were neutralized by the Field Deployable Hydrolysis System equipment aboard Cape Ray for 45 days while on the Mediterranean sea.

The process utilized water, sodium hypochlorite, and sodium hydroxide, U.S. Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center said.

The neutralization, which started in late June, was done at sea for the first time, Pentagon noted.

In the next two weeks, the ship will carry the neutralized chemical components to Germany and Finland to undergo industrial waste treatment to further reduce them into safer chemicals.

Syria was accused of possession and use of chemical weapons August last year. Terrible pictures of nerve gas victims during a conflict in Damascus shocked the international community.

U.S. reported that more than 1,500 people were killed by the chemical weapons in the conflict. President Obama considered air strikes on Syria, reports said.

Following the accusation, Russia urged Syria to surrender its chemical weapons and render them useless in warfare.

This proposal came with a warning of military strikes by U.S. and France who both believed that the weapons were intended against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's enemies.

The United Nations Security Council Resolution 2118 imposed on Syria a schedule detailing the destruction of its chemical weapons.

In November, Syria destroyed their chemical weapon manufacturing facilities. The international community also took part in neutralizing Syria's chemical stockpile.

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