gas warfare

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• gas warfare — noun : warfare in which poisonous, asphyxiating, and corrosive gases are used as weapons * * * gas warfare, the use of poison gas and other harmful chemicals as weapons; chemical warfare …   Useful english dictionary

• gas warfare — use of poisonous gas in a war …   English contemporary dictionary

• Gas venenoso en la Primera Guerra Mundial — Un ataque con gas venenoso usando cilindros de gas durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. El uso de gas venenoso en la Primera Guerra Mundial …   Wikipedia Español

• Gas attack at Hulluch — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Hulluch caption= partof=the Western Front of World War I date=April 27, 1916 ndash; April 29, 1916 place=Loos, France result=British victory combatant1=flagicon|UK United Kingdom… …   Wikipedia

• Gas-operated reloading — Gas operation is a system of operation used to provide energy to operate autoloading firearms. In gas operation, a portion of high pressure gas from the cartridge being fired is used to power a mechanism to extract the spent case and chamber a… …   Wikipedia

• gas mask — a masklike device containing or attached to a component that filters the air inhaled by the wearer through charcoal and chemicals, for protecting the face and lungs against noxious gases and fumes, as in warfare or in certain industrial processes …   Universalium

• gas — gasless, adj. /gas/, n., pl. gases, v., gassed, gassing. n. 1. Physics. a substance possessing perfect molecular mobility and the property of indefinite expansion, as opposed to a solid or liquid. 2. any such fluid or mixture of fluids. 3. any… …   Universalium

• Gas mask — A gas mask is a mask worn over the face to protect the wearer from inhaling airborne pollutants and toxic materials. The mask forms a sealed cover over the nose and mouth, but may also cover the eyes and other vulnerable soft tissues of the face …   Wikipedia

• gas — n. & v. n. (pl. gases) 1 any airlike substance which moves freely to fill any space available, irrespective of its quantity. 2 a such a substance (esp. found naturally or extracted from coal) used as a domestic or industrial fuel (also attrib. :… …   Useful english dictionary

• Gas in Mesopotamia — It is suspected by some that the British might have used toxic gas against the Kurds in Mesopotamia, during the Ath Thawra al Iraqiyya al Kubra or Iraqi revolt against the British in 1920, in the period of the British Mandate of Mesopotamia.Henry …   Wikipedia

• gas — I. /gæs / (say gas) noun (plural gases) 1. Physics a substance consisting of atoms or molecules which are sufficiently mobile for it to occupy the whole of the space in which it is contained. 2. any such fluid substance or mixture of substances,… …