The Chemists' War: 1914-1918Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015 - 342 pàgines Within months of the start of the First World War, Germany began to run out of the raw materials it needed to make explosives. As Germany faced imminent defeat, chemists such as Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch came to the rescue with Nobel Prize winning discoveries that overcame the shortages and enabled the country to continue in the war. Similarly, Britain could not have sustained its war effort for four years had it not been for chemists like Chaim Weizmann who was later to become the first president of the State of Israel. Michael Freemantle tells the stories of these and many other chemists and explains how their work underpinned and shaped what became known as The Chemists' War. He reveals: * how chemistry contributed to the care of the sick and wounded and to the health and safety of troops; The book will appeal to the general reader as well as the many scientists and historians interested in the Great War. |
Continguts
Chapter | 1 |
Navvies Tunnellers and Chemists | 15 |
Chapter | 18 |
Care of the Sick and Wounded | 29 |
21 | 41 |
Chapter 4 | 42 |
References | 57 |
A Serendipitous Discovery | 71 |
The Father of Modern Chemical Warfare | 168 |
References | 184 |
Mass Production Mass Slaughter | 197 |
Smell of Mustard Oil Taste of Horseradish | 211 |
After the War | 221 |
References | 234 |
References | 247 |
The Potash Crisis | 260 |
The Development of the Machine Gun | 84 |
Chapter 7 | 93 |
Acetone from Ethanol | 110 |
Whale Oil from Blubber | 125 |
Germanys Desperate Plight | 139 |
An Element of War | 150 |
Friends Become Foes | 274 |
The Manifesto of the NinetyThree | 276 |
One Building Two Memorials | 290 |
The Silvertown Explosion | 303 |
325 | |