ETX 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Chemical Warfare, Lewisite, Cyanogen Chloride
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70 agents : a brief history of )ar gases. By the german army to break the gridlock of etc. (cid:841) trench warfare . Germany was the center of chem/physics in the world i: casualties were relatively minor, but . Psychological impact was greater actual toxic effects inhuman i. Germany, britain, france, japan, etc. kept developing war gases in case of another war: )idespread military use of war gases (cid:840)since ))i(cid:841) was avoided due to . Gas posters often told you what war gases smelled like, indicating when to put on masks for soldiers. Sulfur and nitrogen mustards (ery reactive with dna, . Bond with proteins, which causes the blistering. Note: they did use them in gas chambers, but not in battlefield because they couldn"t control them i. i. i. ii: use by iraq against iran occurred in the 1980s, used in modern times to . Sometimes for chemotherapy i: other blister agents.