Principais avanços da Química durante as Grandes Guerras Mundiais

Abstract

This End-of-Course Work (ECW) presents some contribuitions of Chemistry involved in the development of substances during the Great World Wars, as well as an experimental proposal involving the production of chlorine gas, as a possible guiding axis for Basic Education. Initially, it is discussed about the First World War and its respective positive and negative aspects, highlighting, mainly, the production of organic compounds used as a form of attack, in a majority way. In the second part, are described chemical compounds also produced in World War II. One of the main focuses of this block of ECW are the two atomic bombs detonated in Japan and some facts that permeated their synthesis and explosion. Posteriorly, it is presented an experimental proposal for the production of chlorine gas, its brief history and context, and its alternative use for the synthesis of other compounds.