Arsine oil
Arsine oil , sometimes abbreviated as A oil , is a highly toxic mixture of organoarsenic compounds . It is one of the so-called blue cross weapons .
Arsine oil was already used in the First World War, but it was not produced in large quantities until the Second World War by a warfare agent factory in Löderburg near Staßfurt . It was used to lower the freezing point of sulfur mustard .
The mixture consisted of 50% phenylarsine dichloride , 35% diphenylarsine chloride , 5% arsenic (III) chloride and 5% triphenylarsine .
After the end of the Second World War, around 7,500 tons of arsine oil were still stored in Germany , which the Allies sunk at least partially in the Baltic Sea , the North Sea and the Biscay . After the incineration of warfare agents containing arsine, isolated reports have been made of soil contamination by arsenic compounds.
Web links
- Dioxin contamination from the destruction of the liquid warfare agent "sulfur must" and arsenic-containing warfare agents and residues in the former storage facilities. German Bundestag: Printed matter 13/2733 of October 24, 1995 (accessed October 6, 2010)
Individual evidence
- ^ Sheets for German and International Politics, Volume 24 . Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, 1979 ( snippet preview in the Google book search), p. 1273.
- ↑ Dieter Martinetz: From the poison arrow to the ban on chemical weapons: On the history of chemical weapons. 1996 ( Snippet preview in Google Book Search), p. 147.
- ↑ Tim Schäfer: Secret !: "Forced labor on Sachsenberg: Kriegsschwefel NI-365": on the history of forced labor in armaments projects of the Wifo and IG Farben-Industrie near Salza / Nordhausen (Thuringia) and the legal situation on the Kohnstein near Niedersachswerfen. 2004 ( Snippet preview in Google Book Search), p. 79.
- ↑ Jürgen Altmann, Ute Bernhardt, Kathryn Nixdorff, Dieter Wöhrle: Science-Armament-Peace: Basic knowledge for peace research. ( Limited preview in Google Book search), p. 217.
- ↑ Joachim Specht: The legacy of Kapen, or, The pudding factory in the Oranienbaumer forest. , First Minute Taschenbuchverlag, 2007 ( snippet preview in Google book search), p. 97.