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The opening act of the toxic gases deployment took place at the early months of WWI, when the French army fired tear gas grenades (filled with ethyl bromoacetate) against German soldiers (August 1914) [1].
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Giannakoudakis, D.A., Bandosz, T.J. (2018). World War I: Militarization of Chemistry. In: Detoxification of Chemical Warfare Agents . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70760-0_2
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