Xylyl bromide,
T-stoff or
methylbenzyl bromide, was used as a tear gas in
World War IWorld War I , also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Wars, was a global military conflict which involved most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance...
under the name
WeisskreuzWhite Cross is a World War I chemical warfare agent consisting of one or more lachrymatory agents: bromoacetone , bromobenzyl cyanide , bromomethyl ethyl ketone , chloroacetone , ethyl bromoacetate, and/or xylyl bromide.White Cross is also a generic World War I German marking for artillery shells...
(
white cross). It was a popular agent due to its easy manufacture. Its first effective use in battle is dated to August 1914, in the battle of Ypres, when the French used tear gas grenades with xylyl bromide on Germans.
Xylyl bromide was the active ingredient in the T-shell, an artillery shell with explosive in its front part, filled with the liquid agent and named after Hans von Tappen, its inventor.
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Xylyl bromide,
T-stoff or
methylbenzyl bromide, was used as a tear gas in
World War IWorld War I , also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Wars, was a global military conflict which involved most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance...
under the name
WeisskreuzWhite Cross is a World War I chemical warfare agent consisting of one or more lachrymatory agents: bromoacetone , bromobenzyl cyanide , bromomethyl ethyl ketone , chloroacetone , ethyl bromoacetate, and/or xylyl bromide.White Cross is also a generic World War I German marking for artillery shells...
(
white cross). It was a popular agent due to its easy manufacture. Its first effective use in battle is dated to August 1914, in the battle of Ypres, when the French used tear gas grenades with xylyl bromide on Germans.
Xylyl bromide was the active ingredient in the T-shell, an artillery shell with explosive in its front part, filled with the liquid agent and named after Hans von Tappen, its inventor. On January 30, 1915, it was used against Russians.
Gas maskA gas mask is a mask worn over the face to protect the wearer from inhaling "airborne pollutants" and toxic gases. The mask forms a sealed cover over the nose and mouth, but may also cover the eyes and other vulnerable soft tissues of the face. Some gas masks are also respirators, though the word...
s offered good protection against xylyl bromide.
The CAS number is for
o-xylyl bromide (2-methylbenzyl bromide),
for
p-xylyl bromide (4-methylbenzyl bromide), and for
m-xylyl bromide (3-methylbenzyl bromide). Number is reported as well.
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