From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Wed Aug 01 2001 - 06:11:32 MDT
|On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, KPJ wrote:
|
|> Red phosphor solved into tetrachlorocarbon worked well during WWII.
|
|It's white phosphorus (a waxy pyrophoric phosphorus allotrope), and one
|usually uses carbon disulfide as solvent.
Thanks for the correction.
|> You pour it out near some place you like to hit, and leave. When the
|> tetrachlorocarbon dries, the red phosphor starts to oxidize, and ignites
|> the gaseous tetrachlorocarbon into a _huge_ explosion.
|
|CCl4 is not burnable in air. CCl4 reacts with sodium, though, and
|explosively (don't try it at home, kids).
The intense heat created by the phosphorus burning might be the key to
oxidize CCl4? According to data, the method was used by various resistance
groups.
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