Questions tagged [chemicals]
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Are there any first-person subjective reports from individuals exposed to Agent BZ?
Agent BZ is a chemical weapon explored by the US military which induces overwhelming hallucinogenic states.
While there's a fair amount of data on the history of this subjects and the rough ...
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Was there an alchemical symbol given for pitchblende?
In 1789 Martin Klaproth isolated uranium from pitchblende for the first recorded time, however uranite was used in dying glass in the first century.
Through the age of alchemy, I have not been able to ...
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How were improvised masks used to defend gas attacks in World War One?
During the battle for Ypres in April 1915 the attacking Germans used chlorine gas to great effect, nearly annihilating the 1,100 defending French. The French had moved closer to the gas cloud, ...
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Did French troops use chemical weapons during the Siege of Laghouat in 1852?
During the Siege of Laghouat in Algeria, the French army massacred around 3627 civilians.
Many sources suggest that the colonial army also used chemical weapons in that confrontation.
However in these ...
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Did some chemical weapons from the military end up in private hands after WWI?
It is a common, well-documented knowledge, that chemical weapons were widely used during the Great War. It is also quite common knowledge, that soldiers like to take "souvenirs" from the battlefield - ...
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Why would graphite have been confused with lead?
I was reading the wikipedia page for pencil, and came across an interesting fact:
Prior to 1565 (some sources say as early as 1500), a large deposit of graphite was discovered on the approach to ...
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How did the baking soda recipe for crack cocaine catch on?
I have read that
prior to the 1980's, those who wanted to partake of the smokable form of cocaine sometimes did so with a relatively involved and dangerous procedure involving a blow torch
as an ...
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Why didn't Germans use chemical warfare during WW2? [duplicate]
(I have read this discussion but I feel it does not answer completely)
Why haven't Germans massively use chemical warfare during WW2?
The Wikipedia has a text, but for me the reasons are weak:
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Why did Hitler not order the use of poison gas in combat?
From what I know, Hitler wanted Germans to fight, quite literally, to the last, and he wouldn't have minded terribly if every last German died fighting the enemy.
So why did he never use poison gas ...
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What types of Poison gasses were used in World War 1? [closed]
Due to the nature of trench warfare, some form of poison gasses would have been really useful in the trenches. In the trenches the gasses really would’ve been really useful with the limited mobility ...
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Were the Nazis the first to use phenol as a means of execution?
Phenol was discovered in 1834 by Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge.... Injections of phenol were used as a means of individual execution by the Nazis during the Second World War. It was originally used by the ...
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