Re: What's the sodium for? No Audi content

["Ian J Haseltine" <jim_haseltine@email.msn.com>]

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From: Robert Myers <rmyers@inetone.net>
>It is this reaction which produces the star burst effect of a phosphorous
>grenade bursting against a tank as so vividly demonstrated in lots of old
>war movies.  Weapons of this type were used during WWII to bomb civilians
>in Tokyo.  The only way you can put out a phosphorous fire is to submerge
>it in water or perhaps sand (to exclude oxygen).  Bring it out of the water
>and it will spontaneously re-ignite.  Nice way to treat people, huh?



At the end of the last war the British government dumped several thousand
tons of phosphorus bombs in a deep trench in the Irish Sea between Scotland
and Northern Ireland. At least that was where they were supposed to go -
most were dumped as soon as the boats carrying them got out of sight of
land. The Scotland-Ireland gas pipeline passes though the area and
underwater tv film has shown phosphorus bombs lying alongside the pipe.
After storms in the area it is not unusual to see fires burning on the
beaches where some of the decomposing bombs have been washed up. Bombs are
also commonly found in fishing nets and fishermen often report hearing
underwater explosions, which are also being recorded on local seismic
equipment.

Jim Haseltine