K-fabric

K-Stoff is an abbreviation and a name mostly used as an alias for a chemical or a chemical mixture . The exact meaning changes with the period in which the term is used and can only be interpreted in the respective context.

First World War

• Monochloromethyl chloroformate or a mixture of mono- and dichloromethyl chloroformate as irritant gas from tear gas grenades developed in 1914. The same mixture of substances was called C-substance when used in mines or was given the code names Palite (French), Palit (English) or Cipalite . On July 29, 1915, in the presence of Walther Nernst, the "C mines" he had developed, which contained this warfare agent, were used for the first time on the Russian front by German special troops with mine throwers that he had also developed . Bauer reports on this in August 1915: “I was particularly pleased to see that even friend Nernst, who initially had doubts about the more volatile K-material, is now singing his praise after having tried himself out at the front [ ...] was able to convince the captured Russians of the superior effectiveness. "

• Phenylcarbylamine chloride , one of the green cross compounds, which was manufactured by Germany and used for the first time in May 1917 in Berry-au-Bac .

Second World War

• general abbreviation for warfare agent (also K'Stoff, Kst)

• Oxygen-containing war substitute propellants in the broader sense, specifically a mixture of 20 % by volume acetone and 80% by volume ethyl acetate

• Cresol soap (1: 1 mixture of cresol isomers and soft soap ), one of the few disinfectants effective against lice at the time

See also

• List of substances with code names "Substance"

Individual evidence

1. ^ EB Spear, Some problems of Gas Warfare in Scientific Monthly 8 , 275-283 (1919).
2. ^ Gerhard Hirschfeld, Gerd Krumeich, Irina Renz: Encyclopedia First World War . UTB, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8252-8396-4 , pp. 521 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ↑ Clinical training . Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1937, OCLC 20809908 , pp. 484 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
4. ^ Carl Duisberg, Kordula Kühlem (ed.): Carl Duisberg (1861-1935): Letters from an industrialist. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71283-4 ( limited preview in Google book search).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Bavarian State Office for the Environment: Working aid for the investigation of blasting sites, Appendix 3.1: List of abbreviations / glossary  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 871 kB), p. 19, accessed on May 15, 2013.  
6. ↑ abc-waffen.de: Lung-damaging warfare agents , accessed on May 15, 2013.
7. ↑ EMPA : About the operation of carburetor engines with oxygen-containing fuels ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Report 181, Zurich, June 1952, p. 9. 
8. ↑ Walter Steuer, Friedemann Schubert: Guide to disinfection, sterilization and disinfestation . 2010, ISBN 978-3-89947-954-6 , pp. 131 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
9. ↑ Wolfgang Schieder, Achim Trunk: Adolf Butenandt and the Kaiser Wilhelm Society: Science, Industry ... Wallstein Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-89244-752-7 , p. 139 ( limited preview in Google Book search).