Yellow cross

Yellow Cross grenades , even mustard chemical warfare agent , were blister agent carrying grenades , in the First World War were used poison gas to bring unerringly over longer distances used. The term "yellow cross" comes from the fact that the grenades were marked with crosses or rings in yellow during the First World War.

S-Lost and N-Lost , also known as mustard gas , were used for yellow cross grenades . In their pure form, mustards are liquids at room temperature; the designation as gas does not apply in the strict sense. Lewisite should also be added to this category, but was only discovered at the end of the First World War and was no longer used in this.

A yellow cross attack occurred for the first time on the night of July 12, 1917 during an attack by the German on the British troops near Ypres . The name yperite (dichlorodiethyl sulfide) is derived from this attack .

See also

• Gas war during the First World War
• Colored shooting
  • Blue cross, see nose and throat warfare agent
  • Green Cross
  • Yellow cross 3 or red cross, see nettle fabric
  • White cross, see eye warfare agent
• List of chemical warfare agents

Individual evidence

1. ^ Brockhaus ABC Chemie , VEB FA Brockhaus Verlag Leipzig 1965, p. 462.
2. ^ Bristol University - School of Chemistry: Development of a Lewisite Antidote .