Word: dichlorethyl
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...breathe the gas for four hours and still keep fighting. The principal advantage of gas, however, is that it lowers the efficiency of the entire army more than 50 per cent because of the fact that masks interfere with eating, speaking, marching, and general fighting. I cannot agree that dichlorethyl sulphide, commonly called mustard gas or 'Yperite' is painless...
...Vapor gases, of which the only one used in the War was mustard gas (dichlorethyl sulphide). This gas is 3. blistering penetrant, the effects of which last for a considerable length of time, owing to its slow evaporation. Ground saturated with this liquid cannot be occupied for at least a week. In high concentrations, such as were used, it is certain death, to breathe it without a mask; but although there were 150,000 casualties in the British Army from mustard gas, less than 1 in 40 died and about 1 in 200 became permanently unfit...
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