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  2. List of explosions - Wikipedia

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    2 January 2021 Afghanistan: Kabul: 5 Unknown A gas cylinder exploded near a bakery. [132] 10 January 2021 China: Qixia: 10 11 Qixia gold mine accident – A gold mine exploded and collapsed. [133] 20 January 2021 Spain: Madrid: 4 10 2021 Madrid explosion – A gas explosion severely damaged a building. [134] 21 January 2021 India: Shivamogga: 8 ...

  3. Chemical weapons in World War I - Wikipedia

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    Chronic fatigue and memory loss were reported to last up to three years after exposure. In the years following World War One, there were many conferences held in attempts to abolish the use of chemical weapons altogether, such as the Washington Naval Conference (1921–22), Geneva Conference (1923–25) and the World Disarmament Conference (1933

  4. List of wars by death toll - Wikipedia

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    This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...

  5. List of accidents and disasters by death toll - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.

  6. List of highly toxic gases - Wikipedia

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    Highly Toxic: a gas that has a LC 50 in air of 200 ppm or less. [2] NFPA 704: Materials that, under emergency conditions, can cause serious or permanent injury are given a Health Hazard rating of 3. Their acute inhalation toxicity corresponds to those vapors or gases having LC 50 values greater than 1,000 ppm but less than or equal to 3,000 ppm ...

  7. Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions - Wikipedia

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    Debris fell across the city landing miles away from the site of the explosion. The bales of cotton aboard the boat caught fire and fell from the sky causing fires in other parts of the city. The explosion was strong enough to be detected on seismographs in Simla, a city more than 1700 km from the site of the explosion.

  8. List of friendly fire incidents - Wikipedia

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    25 September – In the first gas attack launched by British forces prior to their infantry attack that opened the Battle of Loos, about 140 long tons (140 t) of chlorine gas was released, aimed at the German Sixth Army's positions on the Hohenzollern Redoubt but in places the gas was blown back by wind onto the trenches of the British First ...

  9. List of gases - Wikipedia

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    This list includes substances that boil just above standard condition temperatures. Numbers are boiling temperatures in °C. 1,1,2,2,3-Pentafluoropropane 25–26 °C [151] [3] Dimethoxyborane 25.9 °C; 1,4-Pentadiene 25.9 °C; 2-Bromo-1,1,1-trifluoroethane 26 °C; 1,2-Difluoroethane 26 °C; Hydrogen cyanide 26 °C; Trimethylgermane 26.2 °C [96]