• Eheran@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Burning white phosphorus (WP) releases a thick white smoke (P2O5 reacting with water in the air). So if there is no dense, white smoke, it can not be WP.

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      1 year ago

      Could this be illumination rounds then? Would explain how the forest isn’t actually on fire, the lack of smoke, and the non-chalantness of the video.

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        1 year ago

        No, those are incendiary rounds, there just isn’t much left to burn at this point. It looks amazing for a minute and then it is burned up.