During World War I, the French Army was the first to employ tear gas, using 26 mm grenades filled with ethyl bromoacetate in August 1914. The small quantities of gas delivered, roughly 19 cm 3 (1.2 cu in) per cartridge, were not even detected by the Germans.

2021年5月17日 · As the battle began, the Germans released 170 metric tons of chlorine gas from more than 5,700 cylinders buried in a four-mile line across the front. British officer Martin Greener...

Gases used included chlorine, mustard gas, bromine and phosgene, and the German Army was the most prolific user of gas warfare. Gas did not prove as decisive a weapon as was anticipated but it was effective in clearing enemy forward positions.

2021年5月20日 · Poison gas was a devastating weapon in World War I and played a significant role in the events of the First World War. In fact, poison gas was used throughout the war as a means of trying to end the stalemate that resulted from trench warfare.

This was the first effective use of poison gas on the Western Front and the debut of Germany’s newest weapon in its chemical arsenal, chlorine gas, which irritated the lung tissue causing a choking effect that could cause death.

2015年1月30日 · Gas terrified soldiers in WW1, but it killed comparatively few of them, at least on the Western Front. So why was it the one WW1 weapon to be banned?

Chemical weapons were a type of weaponized gas used during World War I to inflict damage on enemy troops. These weapons were designed to release toxic chemicals, which could cause serious injury or death to those exposed to them.

Gas warfare is a method of war that employs weapons that are designed to cause casualties primarily through the use of harmful chemical agents. The First World War constitutes the most extensive incidence of gas warfare in the 20th century, and poison gas remains associated with the horrors of trench warfare in public memory.

2014年5月17日 · It’s estimated that as many as 85% of the 91,000 deaths attributed to gas in World War 1 were a result of phosgene or the similar agent diphosgene. It’s hard to put a precise number on, since it was commonly used in combination with chlorine gas, along with the related chemical diphosgene.

Gas Warfare in WW1 Gassed is a very large oil painting completed in March 1919 by John Singer Sargent. It depicts the aftermath of a mustard gas attack during World War 1, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a first aid station.