Mustard+and+Chorline

Mustard and Chorline By: Timothy

__ Mustard Gas __ Germany used the mustard gas on Russia at Riga in September 1917. The mustard gas is also called Yperite. It was almost an odorless gas.It was most lethal gas of the poisonous chemicals during the war. It took hours to take effect on the victims. It was so powerful only small amounts had to be put into bomb shells when the Germans fired it. Once in the soil the gas remained in there for weeks. It could still affect soldiers when it was in the soil. The skin of the victims would blister. The eyes would become sore and the victims would vomit.It caused internal and external bleeding. It also attacked the bronchial tubes, stripping off the mucous membrane.It took four to five weeks of suffering to die. __ Chlorine __ First used by the German Army in World War One. Used on April 1915 against the French at Ypres. The gas looked like yellow and green clouds coming towards the soldiers. The gas smelled like pineapple and pepper. The gas destroys the respiratory organs of the victims. This lead to a slow death by suffocation. The weather needs to right before you used the gas so it won’t affect your army. They put the gas shells into heavy artillery so they could bomb the opposing army and whoever didn’t die would be killed by the gas. Allied soldiers used masks of cotton that have been soaked in urine to prevent chlorine from getting into to their blood stream. The cotton masks were found to neutralize the chlorine.

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