Gases Used - WW1

Question 1

What types of gas did they use in ww1

Answer 1

Compressed liquid chlorine, phosgene and mustard gas

Question 2

What did these gases do to the soldiers

Answer 2

The liquid chlorine burnt skin and left you gasping fir air.
They all had terrible effects.
The yellow gas was the most unpleasant, men were blinded, huge yellow blisters appeared on any exposed skin and lungs were stripped of their lining.

Question 3

How were the soldiers warned of the gas

Answer 3

Shell cases were strung up with wire and they banged it if gas was near

Question 4

How could chlorine gas be detected

Answer 4

By smelling it

Question 5

List 3 effects of mustard gas

Answer 5

Blindness, burns and sores on the eyes

Question 6

What happened to soldiers who breathed in gas

Answer 6

Eyes bulge out of ones head, agony around the chest, lungs dissolve and green froth bubbles out of someone’s mouth