Search for notes by fellow students, in your own course and all over the country.
Browse our notes for titles which look like what you need, you can preview any of the notes via a sample of the contents. After you're happy these are the notes you're after simply pop them into your shopping cart.
Title: Zyklon B, a chemical used during the Holocaust
Description: The history of a chemical agent used during the holocaust to exterminate the Jewish population.
Description: The history of a chemical agent used during the holocaust to exterminate the Jewish population.
Document Preview
Extracts from the notes are below, to see the PDF you'll receive please use the links above
Zyklon B
Zyklon B, also known as hydrogen cyanide, was invented by Fritz Haber (a Jewish
scientist working for Germany)
...
The creator of Zyklon B also worked during World War One to create
chemical weaponry and other weapons of war
...
In 1918, he received the Nobel Prize for his work in agriculture
...
Haber’s discovery
advanced agriculture by decades and was the foundation for his research in chemical weapons
...
Germany began
running out of nitrogen to create explosive weapons during World War Two
...
However the British Navy blockade tankers from shipping the nitrates
...
Habar solved the problem by creating a way to convert N2 into an unstable molecule by
adding iron catalyst and aluminum
...
They were the bases of his creation of chemical weaponry
...
They
were responsible for the greatest amount of deaths
...
Mustard gas interferes with DNA and can cause
severe burns on a human body
...
However, he continued his research in
secret
...
Its intent was to be a pesticide, however it was
used during World War two as a lethal toxin
...
The
military designation of Zyklon B is AC
...
Zyklon B is a systemic agent causing system-wide failure
...
It is stored as pellets in sealed metal containers and will turn into a
poisonous gas on contact with air
...
More than enough to kill a human
...
Aerosol
deliverance uses a liquid/gas mixture that relies on a gas propellant then relies on wind patterns
to deliver the munition
...
The subject ingests
hydrogen cyanide for oral delivery
...
Today Hydrogen Cyanide is used in insecticides
...
Hydrogen cyanide is also present in some tobacco products and industrial
pollutants and many other modern-day products
...
The SS and the Gestapo rounded up Jews that escaped the first sweep and other political
prisoners
...
The death camps in Poland commanded by Heinrich Himmler,
the first Nazi official to give the order to use Zyklon B for exterminations
...
Many died afterwards from malnutrition, disease and poisoning
...
Prisoners will become almost
skeletal after a few days of this type of treatment
...
Works Cited
CDC
...
" Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 9 Nov
...
cdc
...
html
...
2018
...
"Auschwitz
...
246,248,254,263
...
"The Haber Process
...
chm
...
ac
...
htm
...
2018
...
"Hydrogen Cyanide
...
ncbi
...
nih
...
Accessed 1 Feb
...
Everts, Sarah
...
2015, chemicalweapons
...
org/who-was-the-father-of-chemical-weapons/
...
2018
Title: Zyklon B, a chemical used during the Holocaust
Description: The history of a chemical agent used during the holocaust to exterminate the Jewish population.
Description: The history of a chemical agent used during the holocaust to exterminate the Jewish population.