Monday, 10 December 2012

Zyklon=زيكلون


Zyklon in German means cyclone and according to ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY derives from the Greek language
“”cyclone (n.)
1848, coined by British East India Company official Henry Piddington to describe the devastating storm of December 1789 in Coringa, India; irregularly formed from Gk. kyklon "moving in a circle, whirling around," prp. of kykloun "move in a circle, whirl," from kyklos "circle" (see cycle (n.)). Applied to tornados from 1856.


BUT .................   Zyklon=زيكلون  was ALSO   according to WIKIPEDIA :
Zyklon B (German pronunciation: [tsykloːn ˈbeː]; also spelled Cyclon B or Cyclone B) was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in the early 1920s and infamous for its later use by Nazi Germany to kill human beings in gas chambers of extermination camps during the Holocaust. Zyklon B consisted of hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid), a stabilizer, a warning odorant (ethyl bromoacetate),[Note 1] and one of several adsorbents.
Read further the WIKIPEDIA       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B


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