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[applegrove]

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What is white phosphorus?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-white-phosphorus-russia-ukraine/

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. white phosphorus

is a horrible dangerous chemical shouldn't be used anywhere near civilians and if putin is dropping white phosphorus on civilians its a sadistic weapon not only war crime its just cruelty on top of that..

[uponit7771]

2. Its thermite ... better than white phosphorus but still wouldn't want to be below it.

[applegrove]

4. Thanks.

[rsdsharp]

3. It appears in an episode of M*A*S*H.

[lastlib]

5. White phosphorus ignites on contact with air

It burns hot enough to ignite just about anything it contacts--clothing, wood, fuel, flesh....super-nasty stuff. Cannot be extinguished once contacted with air, it just has to burn itself out.

[applegrove]

6. I did not know such a weapon existed. The Russians are monsters.

[lastlib]

7. Argument can be made that Americans are, too...

We used the stuff in Vietnam.

[applegrove]

8. Yes. Read US had used it. Monstrous.