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Mustard Gas

Mustard Gas. By: Morgan & Kyle. Try to ketchup to modern times with mustard gas!. You better bring a mask if you don’t want to get gassed. The affect of mustard gas on war. Mustard gas was used as a weapon during world war one and two.

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Mustard Gas

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  1. Mustard Gas By: Morgan & Kyle

  2. Try to ketchup to modern times with mustard gas! • You better bring a mask if you don’t want to get gassed

  3. The affect of mustard gas on war • Mustard gas was used as a weapon during world war one and two. • Mustard gas was contained in artillery shells, rockets, bombs, and sprays from airplanes. • The gas would explode, spread out, and then sink into trenches where it would be trapped for a certain amount of time. • The gas would linger for a couple of days on the ground. The colder the weather the longer the gas would linger. • At the beginning of the war gas masks were useless. • A little went a long way. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoYWrgiAKwk

  4. Properties of Mustard Gas • Mustard gas melts at 14 degrees Celsius • It decomposes before melting 218 degrees Celsius. • Depending on the pureness the color could be colorless, yellow, or dark brown. • It smells like garlic or horseradish. • It is soluble in fat, helping absorption with skin.

  5. Effects on the body • Don’t feel effects for a couple hours. • Causes skin to boil and turn red. • It is deadly if inhaled because it can blister your airway. • Causes irritation to the eyes. • Problems with the digestive and respiratory systems. • It penetrates clothes easily so you have to wear gas suits to be able to walk in it. • Can cause temporary blindness

  6. Facts about mustard gas • Less than five percent actually exposed died from it. • It took the British over a year to develop their own version of it while the German had already been using it. • It is still used today. • Goats were test subjects in the development of mustard gas. • Soldiers would rather be out in the open space of the battlefield than be in the trenches with the mustard gas. • It is not that soluble in water.

  7. Bibliography • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_mustard • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoYWrgiAKwk • http://science.howstuffworks.com/mustard-gas2.htm • http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90720

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