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Sooner or Later (media.scored.co)
posted 1 month ago by diogenesofthearch on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +74Score on mirror )
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Mellop on scored.co
1 month ago 6 points (+0 / -0 / +6Score on mirror ) 1 child
Actually, that would be the French, who started using ethyl bromoacetate in 1914.
Which is both more irritating and lethal than chlorine, but wasn't available in large enough quantities to have a meaningful impact.
BlueDrache on scored.co
1 month ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
> Ethyl bromoacetate is listed by the World Health Organization as a riot control agent, and was first employed for that purpose by French police in 1912.[4] The French army used rifle grenades 'grenades lacrymogènes'[5] filled with this gas against the Germans beginning in August 1914, but the weapons were largely ineffective, even though ethyl bromoacetate is twice as toxic as chlorine.[6][a] In the early months of the war the British also used the weaponized use of tear gas agents and more toxic gasses including sulfur dioxide.[7] The German army then used these attacks to justify their subsequent employment of it as odorant or warning agent in odorless, toxic gases and chemical weapons in 1915 under the German code Weisskreuz (White Cross).[8]
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