Word: zylyl
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...however, the first use in the War of noxious gas. In August 1914 the French began shooting rifle grenades containing the tear-gas ethylbromacetate and later used another lacrimator, chloracetone, in both rifle and hand grenades. First German gas used (January 1915) was the lacrimator zylyl bromide ("T-Stoff"). The casualty effect of these was negligible...
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