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Zyklon|ˈzaɪklɒn|
Also Cyclon.
[a. G. Zyklon, of unknown etym.]
Hydrogen cyanide adsorbed on, or released from, a carrier in the form of small tablets, used as a fumigant and formerly as a poison gas. Usu. as Zyklon B.
[1926Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 9 Nov. 298/1 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung, m.b.H., Frankfort-on-the-Main... Zyklon... Apparatus for measuring the quantities of substances which generate poisonous gases—for instance, hydrocyanic acid.] 1939Metcalf & Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 2) ix. 281 The other type of dry cyanides, such as the zyklon products, undergo no chemical change when exposed. 1944Chem. Abstr. XXXVIII. 3416 The application of Cyclon B (o.4 g./cc.) for 24 hrs. destroyed all insects but imparted a peculiar taste to the tobaccos. 1964L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xxxi. 169 With Cyclon B they killed two and a half million at Auschwitz. 1975W. Craig Strasbourg Legacy (1976) i. 9 Former SS soldiers..had functioned so anonymously in the camps that hardly anyone lived who could identify them as guards once manning machine guns or dropping Zyklon B tablets into gas chambers. 1977Times 8 June 9/7 [He] was tried and acquitted at Nürnberg in 1948 for supplying the SS with Zykon-B gas. 1978H. Wouk War & Remembrance xi. 111 Zyklon B, the powerful insecticide they have been using right along at the camp to fumigate the barracks, may be the surprisingly simple solution. |