Mustard Gas

Pictures

The Three Stages of Mustard Gas and the Effects of Lewisite

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take many days depending on the weather the hotter and windier the better When it does spill onto soil it turns into a gas or mixes with water in the soil and changes properties Figure 1 4 An Iranian Victim of Mustard Gas According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Toxicological Profile of Mustard Gas exposure to mustard gas is

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MUSTARD GAS

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Soldiers in Gas Masks

In this particular picture it shows soldiers moving through trenches with gas masks on World War One was the war in which chemical weapons were introduced The French were the first to employ such a weapon when they fired tear gas onto approaching German forces The Germans were the next forces to use chemical gasses to injure the enemy They used a chlorine gas which in retrospect destroyed the respiratory organs and slowly killed the French soldiers by asphyxiation By 1915 soldiers in battle were supplied with efficient gas masks shown in the picture Mustard Gas made it on the scene in 1917 used first by the Germans This was an odorless gas that stayed active for several weeks in the soil It took 12 hours to take effect but proved to be very deadly Over 91 198 soldiers died in result of gas attacks and 1 2 million were hospitalized because of them This use of gas in battle shaped militaries across the world from years to come Now on all forces of the world have on them gas masks to fend off the use of chemical or biological attacks Our own forces abroad now have fought an enemy known for its testing of biological and chemical attacks on its own people to test its capability in battle This use of gas in battle has changed the soldiers training and what they carry There are extensive training techniques to utilize a gas mask effectively A solider has a reported 9 seconds to put on a gas mask before it will be exposed to chemical gas photo Higham Robin Researching World War I A Handbook Dennis E Showalter London Greenwood Press 2003 Haber L F quot The Poisonous Cloud Chemical Warfare in the First World War Gas Attack Chemical Warfare 1915 18 and Afterwards 52 4 1988 225 <a href= http links jstor org sici sici=0026 3931 28198810 2952 3A4 3C225 3ATPCCWI 3E2 0 CO 3B2 I >links jstor org sici sici=0026 3931 28198810 2952 3A4 3C2 < a> accessed April 18 2007 <a href= http en wikipedia org wiki Chemical warfare >en wikipedia org wiki Chemical wa

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Soldier with mustard gas burns Image source

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£80 000 each to live on the same site as mustard gas

What a nice place but when you might get ill tell them that you might have been in contact with leaking mustard gas MIGHT

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HOLLICARRS Underground mustard gas tanks

Under this very nice tennis court is one off the 250 ton mustard gas tanks

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Mustard Gas

Blue and Yellow Delta

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building no3 mustard gas store

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building no 4 mustard gas

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dispersal point delivery of mustard gas

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aerial shoots mustard gas tanks under tennis court

AERIAL Shot

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where the mound is the undergroung tanks mustard gas

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looking from track mustard gas forward station

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1942 Father Hickey and Professor Hanley collaborating to make a batch of Mustard Gas

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Crazy Jerrys Mustard Gas T jpg

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Crazy Jerrys Mustard Gas jpg

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referred to as no man s land for fear of being gunned down and battles would often settle into a stalemate Chemical agents such as mustard gas became a way to break that uneasy deadlock Getty Images British casualties blinded by mustard gas in a gas attack

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electric shocks on their nipples if they re not supernaturally cheerful all the time they tend to be really pushy concerned over my appetite On these occasions I wish I could release mustard gas in twin jets from my nostrils I hate going over to people s houses if they re the sort who sulk if you don t lick the plate I want to tell them I have a disease or something

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