The chemists' war: 1914 - 1918
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| adam_text | Contents
Chapter
1
Much More than Chemical Warfare
1
The Chemistry of the Great War
1
One Hundred Shells a Minute
2
Chemical Warfare
4
Many Other Chemicals
6
The Caring Role
9
Chemistry Underpinned the War Effort
11
References
11
Chapter
2
Calling All Chemists
12
Allied Chemists Mobilise
12
Navvies,
Tunnellers
and Chemists
15
Germany Ahead in
1914 18
Alarm Bells in Britain
21
References
23
Chapter
3
Women s Contributions
25
Total War
25
Munitions Factories
27
The Chemists1 War,
1914-1918
By Michael Freemantle
©
Freemantle,
2015
Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, www.rsc.org
xi
xii Contents
Care of the Sick and Wounded
29
Women Chemists
31
Wounded by Mustard Gas
33
The First Royal Society Fellows
36
References
40
Chapter
4
Nobel War Efforts
42
Central Powers
42
Allied Powers
48
References
57
Chapter
5
Powering the War
59
Exploiting the Planet s Resources
59
A Steam-powered War
60
Electricity Generation
63
Pyrolysis of Coal
64
Coal Tar and its Distillation
67
A Serendipitous Discovery
71
Calcium Carbide and Acetylene
74
References
76
Chapter
6
The Chemistry of a Single Firearm Cartridge
78
Nests of Snipers
78
The Issue of Rifles and Other Firearms
80
A Powerful Defensive Weapon
82
The Development of the Machine Gun
84
Machine Gun Supplies
86
The Chemistry of a Single Round
86
The British
.303
Cartridge
87
Other Cartridges
90
References
90
Contents xiii
Chapter
7
The Acetone Crisis
93
The
1915
Shortages
93
A Versatile Solvent
95
Acetone from Wood
99
The Father of Industrial Fermentation
102
Acetone from
Ethanol
110
Other Routes
113
Rintoul s Recovery Process
115
Robertson s Solution to Acetone Scarcity
116
References
119
Chapter
8
Whaling for War
122
An Essential Contribution
122
A Short History of Whaling
122
Whale Oil from Blubber
125
Trench Foot
127
Glycerine
128
Nitroglycerine
129
Immense Demand for Whale Oil
131
Supplies of Whale Oil During the War
133
References
135
Chapter
9
Germany in a Fix
137
Save your Chamber Lye
137
Germany s Desperate Plight
139
To Starve or to Shoot
142
References
144
Chapter
10
May Sybil Leslie
146
An Unsung Champion
146
References
149
xiv Contents
Chapter
11
An Element
of War
150
Platinum Pledge
150
Catalyst for
Sulfuric Acid
Production
151
Catalyst for Nitric Acid Production
152
References
155
Chapter
12
Fritz
Haber:
Revered and Reviled
156
A Heroic and Tragic Figure
156
Haber s Early Life
159
Synthesis of Ammonia
162
The Father of Modern Chemical Warfare
168
After the War
175
A Decisive Role in Pest Control
177
Other Pursuits
178
Sick, Homeless, and in Exile
180
References
184
Chapter
13
The World s First Weapons of Mass Destruction
187
The Battle of Gravenstafel Ridge
187
The Chemical Weapons Race Begins
190
An Unusual Failure
194
The Nastiest of them All
195
Mass Production, Mass Slaughter
197
Outrage and Support
200
References
205
Chapter
14
Pope and the Mustard Agents
207
A New Offensive Material
207
Frustrated by Incompetence and Inefficiency
209
Smell of Mustard Oil, Taste of Horse-radish
211
The Meyer-Clarke Route
214
Hot and Cold Processes
216
The most Effective of Battle Gases
218
Contents xv
After
the War
221
Gibson and Pope also Honoured
222
The First IUPAC President
225
Positive Contributions to Chemistry
226
Study of War Gases Yields Benefits
227
The
Bari
Mustard Gas Tragedy
228
The Cover Up
231
The Birth of Cancer Chemotherapy
232
References
234
Chapter
15
The Biltz Brothers
239
Wilhelm
and
Heinrich 239
Tanks in World War I
240
Tank Chemistry
244
Wilhelm
Survives
246
References
247
Chapter
16
Solutions at Sea
249
Electrolysis on Board
249
Dakin s Solution
252
References
255
Chapter
17
America s Wartime Potash Problem
257
An Abundance of Potash
257
The Potash Crisis
260
The Search for Other Sources
261
Collapse of the Potash Industry
265
References
266
Chapter
18
Fractured Friendships
268
No Quarrel with Germany
268
No Quarrel with Britain
272
Friends Become Foes
274
xvi Contents
The Manifesto of the Ninety-Three
276
Suspicion and Hysteria
280
Post-war Cooperation and Friendship
283
A Great Chemist Who Survived Two World Wars
285
References
287
Chapter
19
One Building, Two Memorials
290
How will I be Accounted for?
290
Ashamed to Walk about the City
293
How Helpless you Feel
296
Science Terrifies, but Science also Protects
298
The
Silvertown
Explosion
303
Cannot be Replaced
305
Those Who Survived
307
References
308
Chapter
20
Fifty Chemicals of the Great War
310
Bibliography
325
Subject Index
329
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