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Chemical weapons
And microbial weapons
In World War III

We start with the definition.
As for chemical weapons, they are chemical compounds that, if they strike a person, cause harm, disease, and disability, and with disability and illness, death. The human being here is the soldier of the enemy who wants to be defeated.

As for microbial weapons, they are pathogenic microbes, bacteria, viruses, or fungi that infect soldiers, causing disability, illness, and death similar to what a chemical weapon causes, and with that comes the possibility of subjugating the enemies.

Chemical weapons in World War I 1914-1918:

This war was the first opportunity to use chemicals as weapons of war in the present modern sense. The war had begun between the Germans and their allies, and between France and its allies, and the soldiers remained in their trenches, not turning from them, with these and those. When the situation became clear, the Germans decided to expel the allied soldiers from their trenches with suffocating and poisonous gases that they fired at them.
Thus began the conflict with chemical weapons.

They began to release chlorine gas from its pipes, relying on a favorable wind blowing towards them to carry it to the enemies. The effect of this at first was severe, as the Allied soldiers did not expect such a weapon, nor did they have any protection against it.

But protection soon came to them after a few days: a rag that the soldier soaked in chemical solutions and held up to his mouth and nose, which received the chlorine and prevented it from entering his lungs with his breath.

The Germans changed gas, so the Allies changed prevention. And they worked
To produce types of these toxic gases. The First World War ended and the two sides almost reached a tie regarding these chemicals and the issue of preventing them.

The first means of protection were the well-known masks, which were known to everyone who attended the years of this war and those that followed.

- Asphyxiating gases:

As for the gases used, the most important of them were those that act in the air passages into the lungs, and may result in their owner dying of suffocation.

Among these, other than chlorine gas, is phosgen
Its chemical name is carbonyl chloride (CO. Cl Carbonyl Chloride.
Chlorine and phosgene were sent to the enemy's front, carried by the wind that was blowing towards them, and they arrived, as if they were pieces of cloud moving.

- Blistering gases:

Among these gases are Blister Gases, which are in fact liquids that touch the body and cause it to blister, i.e. ulcerate it, and make a fluid between the skin and the flesh. It damages tissues and infects blood vessels. It applies to the eyes, respiratory organs, and other things. They are types. Most of the casualties of World War I are attributed to it.

The most famous of these substances is what is known as mustard gas, and the soldiers called it gas because they did not know it except that it came to them in the air. What is a gas is a liquid that looks like oil, and boils at 217 degrees Celsius. It was given this name because, when it is concentrated in the air, it gives the nose a mustard-like odor, but it disappears when diluted.

The composition of this substance is according to chemists
Bis(2-Chloroethyl) Sulphide, and these vesicant materials were sent to the enemies in bombs that exploded in them, and these liquids spread in the air as fine scattered pieces.

Sneezing gases:

We say again that they were not gases, but that is how they appeared to the soldiers, and that is how this name was given to them, the name of sneezing gases.

The truth is that these materials are crystalline solids.
They are two that became famous in World War I. They were made first by the Germans. The bomb full of them goes to the enemies and explodes in them, into fine crumbs that enter the enemy of the soldiers and force them to sneeze by force.

Then they take off their masks, and during that time they are exposed to mustard gas or something similar.

weapons against the military,
and weapons among civilians,
Every Arab should read about it.
And to be equipped with its knowledge, who knows?!