Gas shells

Table 11. Closed Proton (Z) and Neutron (A Shells with Closed Electron (Noble Gas) Shells for Comparison ...

Gas-gehslt, m. gas content, -gemenge, -ge-misch, n. gaseous mixture, gas mixture, mixture of gases, -geruch, m. odor of gas. -ge-schoss, n. gas projectile specif., gas shell, gasgeschlitzt, a. gasproofed. 

A large proportion of mononuclear transition-metal complexes involving 7r-acceptor ligands can be considered to possess the 18 electrons of an inert-gas shell configuration. Justification for this can read-... 

Gas Shells. No casualty-producing gas shells were used until near the end of WWI (June 1915) when the Germans brought out their K shell. The allies began firing such shells in Jan 1916. From then on die percentage of gas shells used on both sides steadily increased. By far the greatest number of all gas shells used in WWI was fired on the Western Front, next came the Eastern Front, and the Austro-Italian Fronts followed... 

Unlike HE shell which had been folly developed and were std munitions 30 yrs before WWI, gas shells had to be hastily improvised developed under stress of war conditions. 

Let us assume that motion of the gas shell of initial radius R and initial... 

Other pyrot mixts have been used as igniters for Thermite. Where a scattering effect was desired a rapid igniter was used, such as the Brit Ophorite, consisting of 9p Mg powder and 13p K perchlorate. This was used extensively by US and Brit forces during WWI in incendiary shells and also in certain types of gas shells... 

Despite these problems the British relied on cylinders as a delivery method until the end of the war but several factors influenced the British decision to continue using them. First, the prevailing winds on the Western Front favoured Allied gas clouds secondly, the British suffered from a chronic shortage of shells and were reluctant to convert the production of high-explosive shells to the production of gas shells and thirdly, British intelligence reports indicated a dense cloud attack was effective in producing mass casualties.55... 

The British ultimately developed a tactical doctrine for the use of gas shells.66 This doctrine set three methods for inflicting enemy gas... 

Chinese Victims of Japanese Chemical Weapons Rise to 39 , People s Daily (China) (14 August 2003) Xuedong Gao, More Japanese Chemical Weapons Found in China Than Room to Store Them , Harbin Heilongjiang Ribao (China) (7 October 2003) Norimitsu Onishi, Japan Apologizes to China for Injuries from Remnants of War , New York Times (13 August 2003) Poison Gas Shells in China, Japan Must Be Disposed of , Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan) (1 October 2003). 

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