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Started by Drache, January 16, 2015, 08:32:08 AM

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It's incorrect to state that he "invented Chlorine gas"...chlorine gas was around long before him but he can correctly be credited with the use of the gas as a weapon.

Much irony in the Jewish connection.
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Quote from: John_Kunkel on January 16, 2015, 02:58:17 PM

It's incorrect to state that he "invented Chlorine gas"...chlorine gas was around long before him but he can correctly be credited with the use of the gas as a weapon.

Much irony in the Jewish connection.

Very true.  Chlorine atoms have been in existence for nearly as long as other elements of matter.  Relatively pure chlorine gas (Cl2) was first synthesized by man back in 1774 (Karl Wilhelm Scheele) using MnO and HCl in a heated reaction process.  Karl did not realize at the time it was a separate element, that came in 1810 (Humphrey Davy).  All of the halogen gases are toxic in the gas form.

WWI was known as the chemist's war due to the escalation of chemical warfare design and usage.  Haber did his part in developing this process, but he was not the first to design a chemical agent in warfare.  The first ones used by the French were more harmful than deadly on the battlefield, but was a footstep towards other things.  Chlorine use changed all of that in a major way...


References for the above information:

http://web1.caryacademy.org/facultywebs/gray_rushin/StudentProjects/ElementWebSites/chlorine/historycl.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_weapons_in_World_War_I
Ph.D. Metallocene Chemist......

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Yes, and Alfred Nobel  much regretted his contribution to society with the invention of dynamite. He had such remorse that he subsequently used his fortune to establish the Nobel Peace price.

Not sure if there is a point to the original post or not other than life is full of irony. During WW1 many different aspects of society contributed to their country's war efforts. The Jew as a scapegoat for the loss of WW1 was hatched in support of Ludendor'fs assessment that the German Military lost the war because of lack of support on the home front. This view also included Communists, Catholics, Weimar Republicans, and others that the military base believed contributed to the loss. Its just that later the Nazi's further perpetuated the myth to serve their own means and we ended up in another global conflict.