Phenol
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Phenol is an aromatic organic compound with the molecular formula C6H5OH. It is a white crystalline solid that is volatile and can catch fire.
Phenol 2 grams
Amine to phenol
Bottle of Calvert's phenol antiseptic, Thackray Museum of Medicine
Franciszek Gajowniczek
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Franciszek Gajowniczek was a Polish army sergeant whose life was saved at the Auschwitz concentration camp by Catholic priest Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in his place.
Phenol
…was also murdered with a phenol injection after surviving two weeks of dehydration and starvation in Auschwitz when he volunteered to die in place of a stranger. Approximately one gram is sufficient to cause death. Phenol is a normal metabolic product, excreted in quantities up to 40 mg/L in human urine. The…
Franciszek Gajowniczek, 1941, Auschwitz prisoner 5659
Gajowniczek as a soldier, before 1939
Gajowniczek's grave at the Niepokalanów cemetery, Poland