Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Chemical weapons in World War I and Chloropicrin

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Chemical weapons in World War I and Chloropicrin

Chemical weapons in World War I vs. Chloropicrin

The use of toxic chemicals as weapons dates back thousands of years, but the first large scale use of chemical weapons was during World War I. They were primarily used to demoralize, injure, and kill entrenched defenders, against whom the indiscriminate and generally very slow-moving or static nature of gas clouds would be most effective. Chloropicrin, also known as PS and nitrochloroform, is a chemical compound currently used as a broad-spectrum antimicrobial, fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, and nematicide.

Similarities between Chemical weapons in World War I and Chloropicrin

Chemical weapons in World War I and Chloropicrin have 2 things in common (in Unionpedia): Tear gas, World War I.

Tear gas

Tear gas, formally known as a lachrymator agent or lachrymator (from the Latin lacrima, meaning "tear"), sometimes colloquially known as mace,"Mace" is a brand name for a tear gas spray is a chemical weapon that causes severe eye and respiratory pain, skin irritation, bleeding, and even blindness.

Chemical weapons in World War I and Tear gas · Chloropicrin and Tear gas · See more »

World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

Chemical weapons in World War I and World War I · Chloropicrin and World War I · See more »

The list above answers the following questions

Chemical weapons in World War I and Chloropicrin Comparison

Chemical weapons in World War I has 192 relations, while Chloropicrin has 15. As they have in common 2, the Jaccard index is 0.97% = 2 / (192 + 15).

References

This article shows the relationship between Chemical weapons in World War I and Chloropicrin. To access each article from which the information was extracted, please visit:

Hey! We are on Facebook now! »