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Bookmark or Share- Zyklon-B | Description, Manufacturer, & Facts | BritannicaZyklon-B, brand name for a hydrogen cyanide–based chemical compound initially created as a pesticide and rodenticide in the early 1920s in Germany. Zyklon-B is a carrier for the gas hydrogen cyanide (HCN); a solution of HCN in water is called hydrocyanic acid or prussic acid.
- At the Killing Centers | Holocaust EncyclopediaZyklon B was a highly poisonous insecticide also used to kill rats and insects. Usually within minutes after entering the gas chambers, everyone inside was dead from lack of oxygen. Under guard, prisoners were forced to haul the corpses to a nearby room, where they removed hair, gold teeth, and fillings.
- Zyklon B | Encyclopedia.comHistory. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. Zyklon B. views 2,657,611 updated. ZYKLON B. BIBLIOGRAPHY. The gas Zyklon B, developed in Germany in the 1920s, is known the world over, not so much for its reputation as a pesticide as for the aberrant use made of it during World War II at Auschwitz-Birkenau and other German death camps.
- Zyklon B | Holocaust EncyclopediaToxin/Chemical. Zyklon B. 00:00. History. One of the most efficient methods to fight lice and thereby to contain and eliminate typhus – and to kill other vermin like grain beetles, fleas, cockroaches, termites, mice, rats and many more as well – is their poisoning with highly volatile hydrogen cyanide.
- Fritz Haber: Jewish chemist whose work led to Zyklon B - BBCFritz Haber: Jewish chemist whose work led to Zyklon B - BBC News. 12 April 2011. By Chris Bowlby. BBC Radio 4. It has been claimed that as many as two out of five humans on the planet today...
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