Why did the germans create chlorine gas the first world war?
The Germans pioneered the use of chlorine gas during WW1 because they wanted their armies to find new ways of BREAKING THE DEADLOCK OF TRENCH WARFARE. Although it is popularly believed that the German army was the first to use GAS (any gas for use in warfare) it was in fact initially deployed by the French. In the first month of the war, August 1914, they fired TEAR-GAS GRENADES (xylyl bromide) against the Germans. Nevertheless the German army was the first to give serious study to the development of chemical weapons and the first to use it on a large scale. Chlorine gas, also known as bertholite, was first used as a weapon ON A LARGE SCALE during the Second Battle of Ypres. As described by the soldiers it had a distinctive smell of a mixture between pepper and pineapple. It also tasted metallic and stung the back of the throat and chest. Chlorine can react with water in the mucosa of the lungs to form hydrochloric acid, an irritant which can be lethal. The damage done by chlorine gas
