Perchlorate, chlorate and chlorite are brought to nature by anthropogenic activities (munition manufacturing, rocket fuel, fertilizer, bleaching agents, disinfectants, pesticides, etc).
Gruban was a German-born businessman who ran several factories that made tools for manufacturing munitions for the First World War.
During World War II, Allied leaders throughout Europe urged the American companies manufacturing munitions to use only "flammable" when labelling the explosives being sent to Europe.
Civilians who took part in the war effort through such activities as building fortifications and manufacturing munitions and other war materials in factories and workshops were considered combatants in a legal sense and therefore liable to be attacked.
We found that several occupations may increase the risk of acute leukemia, particularly occupations related to petroleum products, rubber, nuclear energy, munitions, plastics, and electronics manufacturing.
Visit to a number of small plants formerly manufacturing textiles, fountain pens, etc., and now converted into very efficient munitions works.
TNT is a munitions compound which is released to the environment as a result of military training activities and manufacturing processes [ 6, 7].
Once a dominant manufacturing city — the assembly line and the concept of interchangeable parts were invented there, in munitions factories that were centers of global innovation for much of the nineteenth century — Springfield has been spiralling downward for decades.
It will democratize manufacturing.
