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Squalish on October 28, 2006 - 4:12pm

White phosphorous is often used as an incendiary weapon, but it serves well enough as a lethal purely chemical burn agent by creating phosphoric acid in the skin, and the smoke is used as a primarily nonlethal chemical weapon at high concentrations - it's used in Iraq to flush out tunnels.

They had these aircraft before 1918.

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2Lab on October 28, 2006 - 5:06pm

If Phosphorous isn't bad enough, mustard gas was also used on the Kurds by the RAF during the 20's - 30's.

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