Chlorine vial

Description

Original German vials for ready-mixed decontaminating liquid for weapons after a poison-gas attack (Waffen-engiftungsmittel). Differnt producers, year 1940.

Every phial had a paper manual that mostly gone with time.

Historical reference.

Such plastic bottle was a part of anti-gas equipment of every soldier for the Third Reich (including gas mask in a metal storage box and impregnated cover in a bag).

Vials made of orange plastic appeared not earlier than 1942.

It contained a liquid for decontamination of weapons.

Liquid in the vial smells with chlorine badly, so some collectors call these vials "chlorine-boxes".