The Great Phenol Plot was a clandestine effort by the German government during the early years of World War I to divert American-produced phenol from the manufacture of high explosives that supported the British war effort. Phenol was used by the German-owned Bayer company, which could no longer import the compound from Britain, to produce aspirin.
The Great Phenol Plot was a clandestine effort by the German government during the early years of World War I to divert American-produced phenol from the manufacture of high explosives that supported the British war effort. Phenol was used by the German-owned Bayer company, which could no longer import the compound from Britain, to produce aspirin.
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