Zyklon in
German means cyclone and according to ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY
derives from the Greek language
- 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.
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- 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.
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the WIKIPEDIA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B
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