Video: A somber anniversary: 100 years of chemical weapons

A somber anniversary: 100 years of chemical weapons (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society

Wednesday, April 22 large-scale use of chemical weapons in warfare. Some of the best minds in chemistry at that time, including a Nobel Prize winner, used their knowledge of science to build humanity's new weapons of mass destruction.

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