zyklon-b in English

noun
1
hydrogen cyanide adsorbed on or released from a carrier in the form of small tablets, used as an insecticidal fumigant and by the Nazis for killing concentration-camp prisoners.
The Nazis used Zyklon B , a dreaded chemical, to gas prisoners at Auschwitz.

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1. This is where Zyklon B gas, used at Auschwitz, was invented and Dwight Eisenhower later worked.

2. There was fear of poison gas, in a nation where Zyklon-B was part of the collective memory.

3. 21 This is where Zyklon B gas, used at Auschwitz,[www.Sentencedict.com] was invented and Dwight Eisenhower later worked.

4. After the doors were shut, SS men dumped in the Zyklon B pellets through vents in the roof or holes in the side of the chamber.

5. Zyklon B (German: [tsyˈkloːn ˈbeː] (); translated Cyclone B) was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s.It consisted of hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid), as well as a cautionary eye irritant and one of several adsorbents such as diatomaceous earth.The product is notorious for its use by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust to murder approximately 1.1