Essays on Phosgene

World War I started in 1914 and ended in 1914. It was triggered by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The conflict between the Allies and the Central Powers resulted in deaths of about 15 million combined military and civilian personnel (Gerd, 1977). The Allies consist of countries such as France, United Kingdom, and Russia. On the other hand, the Central Powers composed primarily of Austria-Hungary and Germany. In this war, mankind came to know and use chemical warfare. Initial chemicals used in warfare include gases such as tear gas, chlorine, phosgene, and mustard ...

Introduction

The First World War mirrored a technological trend toward the use of mass production procedures to the use of weapons for warfare. This development started half a century before the First World War and persisted in various conflicts in which weapons were brought to test. The Civil War was heavily influenced by new advancements in technology, especially railroads and guns. However, when the First World War began, the United States discovered itself to lack military technology. The earlier periods of World War I symbolized a clash of the twentieth era technology with the nineteenth era combat in the form of unsuccessful ...

The Bhopal disaster

- Causes The Bhopal disaster, was an industrial accident that occurred on the night of the night of the 2-3 of December at a pesticide plant in Bhopal India .[1] The company that owned the plant was the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), a subsidiary of the American company Union Carbide Cooperation (UCC).Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas (MIC) and other chemicals leading to the instant death of more than 3,800 people and causing significant health problems to thousands of people who lived around the plant. The manufacturing process employed in the plant ...

Background Information:

Union Carbide Corporation is a corporation or a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical; it is the producer of chemicals and polymers that undergo more than one conversion before it reaches the consumers. The company employs over 2400 people. The markets that are served by these products include paints and coatings, packaging, cable and wire, household products, personal care, automotive, textiles, agriculture, oil, gas and pharmaceuticals. The Union Carbide Corporation is a earlier constituent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company had found a cost-effective way to produce ethylene from naturally found gas and liquids, such as propane and ethane. This ...

Natural and manmade disasters all have their own scary associations; for example, people who live in the south Asian nation of Bangladesh face the prospect of cyclonic storms each year that could potentially kill tens of thousands, if they don’t end up just destroying much of the year’s crops. Earthquakes such as the one that led to the 1906 fire in San Francisco are an example of a multi-phase disaster, in which one terrible event leads to another, no matter what interventions people attempt. Nuclear disasters are another example of this sort of multi-phase mayhem, as the environmental ...