Well, we somehow made it to 2020 with this video still up! I guess if you brag about being deleted, TH-cam wont give you the satisfaction of doing it. Imagine mispronouncing a word to over 1 million people though, oof
In my 1st year at uni there was a PhD candidate who worked on an experiment that required white phosphorous. Then, in the middle of that he left for an international internship for several months, leaving the phosphorous safely in a glass jar under water in his lab cupboard ... Obviously the water evaporated and the phosphorous got exposed to the air. Fortunately this happened while the best lab technician I've ever met was there. He quickly realised 1) whose cupboard it was that had started smoking and what chemical was likely stored in there, and 2) that said cupboard was on wheels. He shouted to the professor to immediately open the emergency doors and everyone else to clear a path and wheeled the cupboard outside. He then calmly walked back inside, called the front desk followed by the fire brigade. When the fire fighters arrived he told them to come enjoy the fire (it was just the cupboard burning, but quite spectacularly). Putting it out wasn't useful, just let it burn up. He had called the fire brigade just in case something would go wrong and the fire spread.
Quick thinkers like him are life savers. The worst thing you can do at a time like that is to either hesitate and then end up with a much larger problem, or to hesitate before taking the wrong action (like maybe wheeling into it a classroom full of kids who are juggling glass bottles of gasoline).
Ah, yes fun memories... who hasn't been in a crowded hall in the chem department, while a lab tech pushing a smouldering cabinet, shouts "clear a path!"
Its not random. WP is trending atm because the new COD Game has an Attack with WP as an achievement if you reach a certain killstreak. That lead to some outrage and now it's trending more or less.
Brandon Scott The Witcher, it's a game. [Magic] exists in-universe, but to acquire it, you must go through some rituals that use very toxic potions. As such, most never get such [Magic].
Those sciencey folk have a way with words. I often speak Latin to my girlfriend. She tells me to stop talking sh*t or she's leaving, but I think it secretly turns her on. I can tell by the way she tells me I'm sleeping in the spare room tonight. 😜😂😂😂
12:00 when I was a kid in the 60s there was a phosphorous light for reading comics in the dark, a glass jar with lid unscrew it slightly to let air in. Instructions to build the night-light came from "Children's Encyclopedia"
2:26 This is a good example why you should not collect amber on the german baltic coast and put it in your pocket. It looks very similar to white Phosphorous and you might find that the pretty rock you just picked up is heating up your leg pretty aggressively.
Broke: collect baltic amber and not pay attention Woke: paying attention to not collect phosphorus Chemist: intentionally seek out phosphorus instead of amber
Did you guys hear about the recent experiment to make the clouds more reflective to protect the Great Barrier Reef? Seriously, look it up. They're shooting salt flakes into the clouds. Read the article 2 days ago. I thought it was cool, and relevent. :-)
As a chemistry teacher in the 60s, my grandfather once (out of doors, by way of a ramp and a very long string with the class standing around the edge of the rugby field) dropped a piece of white phosphorus into fuming nitric acid. You could do that sort of thing in those days.
If i'm gonna be honest, the twist feels like it's telling you to pick up the cup, and then scolding you for picking up the cup. It is undoubtedly a powerful scene, but thinking about it from what the game's message is (war bad, games based on horrific events weird motivator, that sort of thing), having no other option at that moment in time with the game hurrying you to use the mortar and then slapping you in the face for following its orders? Makes me think of an NPC telling you to get a spoon and then calling the guards because you took a spoon.
I just got here and while I enjoyed my time my biggest comment is how amazingly professional the demonstrations are. Two bricks and a sheet of glass between the cameras, a tile on top of an old wooden barrier, and an old, rusty axe-head for the ignition panel, and doing nothing but burning a dangerous, self-described "sticky fire" near arid grass. I fully support everything about this backyard chemistry and I love it.
I mean if it goes wrong and may burn up or get destroyed why use expensive mint condition materials? The arid grass on the other hand _is_ a significant fire hazard
"Nobody is allowed use it except when someone breaks the rules and does it anyway and all the other countries are like awww you shouldnt have done that" lmao as accurate as could be
@@williamt.sherman9841 Are you was sleeping last 20+ years? Iraq, Lybia, Syria?.. Doesn't ring a bell? The last country USA tries to conquer was Syria, but Russia had defense obligations so it intervened oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/The-Battle-For-Syrias-Oil-Region.html www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/28/syria-us-troops-oil-fields-isis
@retsaM innavoiG I did the research. Unless by research you mean reading or watching western media full of propaganda for uneducated masses. Think for a moment about what you said. "Country A already has a lot of valuable resource (easily sold for the money). So, obviously, it doesn't need more of it (money)". It may sound logical only to braindead victims of public education... Second fundamental mistake in your thought process is that 'country' decides to start the new war and get the oil. Country is an abstraction. It doesn't decides. People do. Oligarchy/corporations lobby another war, and taxpayers pay for them, while those oligarchy/corporations sell goods for the billions of dollars to the military and gain free oil.
@retsaM innavoiG Ok, I'll try one last time. This conspiracy that "American (war) machine needs oi", which is easy to debunk, was created and presented to you by manipulators. They created invalid explanation and filled information space and, consequently, all the room in your brain. The other explanations never got to you. In reality, oil, for example, from the Syrian Republic is sold to Turkey, Pakistan, India, etc. About oil sold by some US companies - yes, it would cost more. But why it should bother *other* companies, which profit from selling goods, for example, to continue war in Afghanistan, for 67 billions every year? All the military contractors are getting a lot of money. All the "rebuilding" of destroyed countries costs billions every year. Or *other* companies which got control over oil and natural gas in invaded countries?
In the army i was always surrounded with dangerous stuff, explosives, tank rounds ammo etc and it never bothered me. I pulled guard duty on an ammo dump once and they had WP howitzer rounds in there and they made me VERY nervous.
It honestly wouldn't make a difference, unless Russia, Japan and Germany all started using it. The Conventions is honestly a joke. Warcrimes are suggestive at best, and written by the winners, no matter who you are.
In about 1987, I was in a high school chemistry class. During a lab exercise we used filter paper with white phosphorus. My lab partner put the filter paper in the trash can at the end of class which was the last class of the day. Apparently that evening the traces on the filter paper caught fire and luckily the janitor put it out after it burned an entire lab desk and area. The next day we were asked about it and fessed up but we weren't punished.
These weapons makes the game BETTER!!! Virtual Warcrimes are better as they educate WHY they are banned than real warcrimes which is why i learned white phosperous was bad in Homefront, watching your resistance comrade that is getting burned alive is a CLEAR message not to mess with it
Or maybe anyone who has been to a place that was just shot up with hydra rockets from attack helicopters, where their platoon sergeants or ell-tees told them, "Don't mess with any of those weird-looking little black lumps that are all over the place, and don't be downwind of them if they're still burning."
I remember hearing horror stories from some of my instructors when I was in the army. People would get burned down to the bone, then when the doctors would go to clean the wound, it would ignite again
Wait until either Récep Tayip Erdoğan, Bibi Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin or Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman see this video. It be off TH-cam in 2 seconds flat after that. Luckily they are all distracted by Pornhub.
Thank you for answering the question in the thumbnail. This avoids click bait having to wait the entire video for the answer. Now I can choose whether I watch the video or not. I was not really interested in the video per se but since you answered the question, I decided to click on your video to encourage other content creators to do the same.
Every nation when things go smoothly: White phosphorus is so bad. Nobody should ever use it! Every nation when things don't go smoothly: Hanz, bring the chemicals!
Guys, HERE is Our Savior YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF” From the Ancient Semitic Scroll: "Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3) Ancient Semitic Direct Translation Yad - "Behold The Hand" He - "Behold the Breath" Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
When I was dabbling with chemistry way back in the ‘70s, it was easy to get red phosphorus, I converted it to white phosphorus by distilling it in an atmosphere of carbon dioxide. I eventually got a pound of white phosphorus from Selby because I produced a letter from the Health Department which said I can purchase white phosphorus from a retail source. Basically Selby’s was being stricter than the Health Department. In those days you could purchase conc sulphuric or nitric acid over the counter. And also various alkali metals and alkaline earths. Biggest obstacle was they were expensive. The phosphorus and sodium wasn’t expensive.
@@darylcheshire1618 Sodium chloride is table salt, therefore it's perfectly safe and edible. Sodium hydroxide on the other hand is still sold as a drain cleaner, despite its corrosive nature, I suppose if too many people were to use it as a weapon (Like acids were in the UK) the govts would surely ban it too.
As an American army vet I noticed that you completely glossed over the whole part where WP particles on your skin will continue to burn, straight through your clothes, skin and meat right down to the bone until it burns out or someone picks it off with tweezers. Fun stuff.
@@darmstadtium5274 It doesn't just have to be in your head! There's plenty of just *wonderful* images of World War 2 and Vietnam (in particular Vietnam) where people have been killed by WP.
I was listening to some memoirs of German soldiers who fought in Normandy on D-Day and some of their stories about how devastating the white phosphorus grenades were and what they described was disturbing. One soldier said that he witnessed an officer putting one of the soldiers out of his misery as it seemed he was burning alive from the inside out after seemingly inhaling a spray of the liquid. Whole bunkers of men being consumed by the pale flames, screaming for help - for their mothers. :( War is hell, but I do thank you for your service. And, if you are a Vietnam vet - welcome home.
Was just looking for this comment, I knew someone would beat me to it. Hearing incendinary so many times definitely brought the video down to a 9 from a 10.
I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt... I'm american, so I thought maybe it was like an "aluminum vs. aluminium" sort of thing. If that makes any kind of sense...
i bought some of those "magic smoke paper magic trick amazing wow fun party special effect paper" off of wish not thinking anything of it and i got that shit everywhere and it does NOT wash off and a lot of time i would just like get it on my hands lightly rinse them off then go and eat the only reason i stopped was because it was kinda dark one time when i was messing with some and i noticed that shit was GLOWING and i proceeded to do a mass google search for weather it was toxic or not and that led me here and that kids is how i found Explosions&Fire and almost killed my entire family with white phosphorus
It's like two arms connected to a schizophrenic mind. The left arm wants to stay righteous and does In nomine Patris sign, while the right wanks off. Which is pretty apt metaphor for the US chairforce (they are wankers, get it)
Crazy is having rules in wartime...nope can't kill that way ...wat if I'm being tortured and white phosphorus is my only escape? ? Fine but only if ur tortured pow..lol
There's an interesting medical condition called "Phosphorus jaw" where people affected by it had hideous malformed faces due to the Phosphorus vapours being absorbed into their jawbones. Effectively dissolving their jaws over 3-6 months. Creating abscesses and having the living tissue experience necrosis. I kid you not, having their jawbones rot from the inside. This was common for match stick factory personal. Until they got proper safety equipment.
I really love it when I collect shiny stones on the shore here in Germany and have to gamble if Im gonna ignite myself or not. Really loved it how the allies just dumped a huge load of bombs into the sea instead of getting rid of them the environmentally friendly way.
White phosphorus is used in illumination rounds for mortars and artillery, as well as for marking targets with smoke. The kind of people who think that it's used in "war crimes" are idiots who have never been anywhere near the military.
@@MrEvanfriend Yep, that's right. You know all about that, don't you, Mr Military Man? Of course, turning on the news once in a while would reveal that white phosphorus is frequently used in war crimes by, amongst others, both sides of the Syrian Civil War. But no, I'm sure you're right, this highly dangerous chemical weapon is only ever used in illumination rounds...
I worked on making 155 shells filled with WP when I was in the Army. The rounds were used to set smoke screens. The smoke from burning Phosphorus is extremely toxic and the flames when it burns burn extremely long and hot. One thing not covered in this video is that if you get WP on you it tends to burrow to your bones and it will destroy the bones ability to make marrow. One of my coworkers got a speck on his ankle and it took two bone scrapes to get it all out. Is is also a possible carcinogen.
how can that be ? I did the matchbook striker thing when I was about 10 or 12 years old, it also glows in the dark when you rub your fingers, and then chemistry checks out, it's turning red into white phosphorus. So, I did this at least 2 or 3 times, had that shit on my fingers and never really worried about cleaning my fingers, just a quick wipe with a towel from memory. I'm 52 now, no bones or fingers falling off, so ?....
@@psycronizer That is because the amount of white phosphorus is so small that it ignites spontaneously. It doesn't have time to get beneath the layer of your skin.
Whats interesting is that if you try to collect bits of amber at the coast of germany (which is something that some actually make a living of) you´re always reminded that the yellowish/red piece that you think is amber could be old white phospherus ammo used during the wars so everyone who wants to collect amber on the shores of germany: never ever pick it up with bare hands, you could loose parts of your body.
@@imisskatelyn9517have they been? I haven't heard as much about Ukraine in a few months, damn. Here's hoping at some point the international community will stop being cowards and come to give serious aid and security to both peoples 😮💨
"I was standing in front of the fire exit in a casino and security told me I had to move because I was blocking a fire exit. If you have legs and are flammable, you are never blocking a fire exit." - Mitch Hedberg (RIP)
I subbed to this channel instantly on seeing the name "Explosions & FIre". I haven't even watched a video yet, but I am fascinated with this kind of chemistry. I imagine I will go through a lot of your stuff now.
@Nope Nope I don't mind that so much but the worst for me is when people say "resiliency". It's already that type of word! You don't need to add a y on the end to make it the type of word it already is, gah! Ah, pet language beefs are fun to moan about.
When i was a kid i've made some WP exactly like it was shown from matches and used my fingers to produce smoke. It was fun untin skin from that very plce that was covered in WP peeled off and i lost sensetivity in my indexes fingertips. It wasnt particulaly fun. If you value yuor life dont do this.
Mortar man here... Had a brand new officer come in and wanted to drop Willie Pete (White Phosphorus) danger close and run through it for a cool picture. Needless to say he didnt last.
I was in the military in the 70's and this stuff scared the hell out of us as we could see what it did in an operational area. I don't care what anyone says I'm still scared of the stuff. 😅
The good old M-34 White Phosphorous Smoke Grenade, or "Willie-Pete" as I knew it in my post-Vietnam, pre-Iraq Marine Corps career. Never forget being at Range 3, The Basic School, when, in 1978, an enlisted instructor demonstrated the grenade. He said 'don't even think about throwing this grenade because its bursting radius is 34 meters; i.e., "Effective Casualty Radius (ECA)" and not one of you can throw the 27 oz grenade 35 meters.' He taped the grenade to an engineer stake "out there a ways", connected its pin with a piece of slash-wire, then safely well out of the ECR, pulled the pin and we watched as white phosphorous was splattered in every direction. We were at a safe distance. "Wille-Pete" is no joke.
@@fss1704 we're not made out of glass tho, I know you were just saying how versatile the acid is and im being a cuck but simply naming one of its properties like that doesnt mean much in terms of its danger towards humans
hether an acid can dissolve glass or not has absolutely no bearing on how it will react with organic tissue. They're two completely different types of compounds. That's like saying oxygen will eat your skin off because it causes iron to rust. It's a common line of reasoning, but fortunately it is flawed. Otherwise cola would melt your skin because it has phosphoric acid in it.
Video that you kept saying TH-cam would take down, is the first video I've seen of yours and came from TH-cam recommended. Try monetizing it. Oh, and subscribed
For 14 years , I worked in the world's largest WP factory, which made 250M pounds yearly. This shit is no joke and should be outlawed by Geneva convention. I have seen it melt steel like it was butter. I was around thousands of phos fires. The P2O5 is a white cloud, but it is not 'smoke' and would drift over the parking lot. After the vinyl roof & paint on my car was ruined during a single 8 hour shift, HR told me to never bring a nice vehicle to work again.
@@loganiushere Proctor and Gamble was #1 customer, back when it was still used in laundry detergent. Derivative products were used at trace levels in every day items as diverse as vitamins and gasoline. It was open for a little over 50 years. The company was hiding serious environmental issues that left it as one of the 50 worst Superfund sites. The ground water on the property will still be poison 1000 years from now. There was a federal court decision a few years back on pollution issues if you want more information. YT won't allow links , but Shoshone Bannock tribes sued FMC Corp and Judge Winmill found for the tribe and was upheld by 9th Circuit & US Supreme Court.
@@loganiushere phosphates are used mostly in fertilizer. Despite being one of the deadliest compounds known to man it does give vital nitrogen to our plants without which we couldn't sustain our population.
Well, we somehow made it to 2020 with this video still up! I guess if you brag about being deleted, TH-cam wont give you the satisfaction of doing it. Imagine mispronouncing a word to over 1 million people though, oof
Your comment will be deleted.
Hey i have a video idea see what happens when you use ether in an internal combustion engine
Trump vs Iran intensifies*
and instead ends up in recommended list somehow?
Mispronouncing it twice ;)
Legit video, many subscribe.
Not only did this not get deleted, it also got on the recommended page
unexpected turn,
the reversed psychology seems to work
same here, what if its a trap to deny a VISA to US to anyone who sees the video?
It’s also monetized! (but that could just be YT serving ads on it for their own revenue. idk)
@@leandrochavez6480
Can't get a Visa to the United States of you already live there
anAmateurGamer so
"Disturbed chemist commits war crimes in backyard".
As we all did when we were younger.
@@mortisCZ Younger, you say...?
@@mortisCZ The death of countless ants are on my hands.
@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 bring om the sun laser!
i think is only war crime when you toss it at someone's else
In my 1st year at uni there was a PhD candidate who worked on an experiment that required white phosphorous. Then, in the middle of that he left for an international internship for several months, leaving the phosphorous safely in a glass jar under water in his lab cupboard ... Obviously the water evaporated and the phosphorous got exposed to the air.
Fortunately this happened while the best lab technician I've ever met was there. He quickly realised 1) whose cupboard it was that had started smoking and what chemical was likely stored in there, and 2) that said cupboard was on wheels. He shouted to the professor to immediately open the emergency doors and everyone else to clear a path and wheeled the cupboard outside. He then calmly walked back inside, called the front desk followed by the fire brigade. When the fire fighters arrived he told them to come enjoy the fire (it was just the cupboard burning, but quite spectacularly). Putting it out wasn't useful, just let it burn up. He had called the fire brigade just in case something would go wrong and the fire spread.
awesome story, we should all aspire to be that effective under pressure
Quick thinkers like him are life savers. The worst thing you can do at a time like that is to either hesitate and then end up with a much larger problem, or to hesitate before taking the wrong action (like maybe wheeling into it a classroom full of kids who are juggling glass bottles of gasoline).
Ah, yes fun memories... who hasn't been in a crowded hall in the chem department, while a lab tech pushing a smouldering cabinet, shouts "clear a path!"
I used to blow up lab ventilation by losing a lil sodium down the drain.
Sand works pretty good at killing it. That's what we had in the navy to put it out.
Fun stuff,,,,,,,,,,,NOT!
"Magic is real it's just very very poisonous" should be on a t-shirt
"This is gonna get deleted" *appears randomly on my recommended page in 2019*
Same for me.
Never actually watched any of the videos on this channel.
Weird that youtube decided to promote this...
I guess we are all in another list now
same here XD
TH-cam is weird.
Its not random. WP is trending atm because the new COD Game has an Attack with WP as an achievement if you reach a certain killstreak. That lead to some outrage and now it's trending more or less.
“Magic is real kids, it’s jus very very poisonous” this had me rolling
Haven't you hear of a Witcher?
fuck now i can't comment this because then I'll be accused of *stealing* xD
Carl Weathers who?
Brandon Scott The Witcher, it's a game. [Magic] exists in-universe, but to acquire it, you must go through some rituals that use very toxic potions. As such, most never get such [Magic].
@@No-uc6fg They even made a whole lot of fanfiction books based on that /s
"The fire is a very angry" very accurate description, very scientific, professional, and well put.
Those sciencey folk have a way with words.
I often speak Latin to my girlfriend.
She tells me to stop talking sh*t or she's leaving, but I think it secretly turns her on.
I can tell by the way she tells me I'm sleeping in the spare room tonight.
😜😂😂😂
Yes
Damn those limeys! So good at describing things.
Used to spreche Deutsche zum meinen girl, always said it sounded "dirty", lol, good times.
Whoops not limey? What's a bad word for an aussie?
12:00 when I was a kid in the 60s there was a phosphorous light for reading comics in the dark, a glass jar with lid unscrew it slightly to let air in. Instructions to build the night-light came from "Children's Encyclopedia"
The term “sticky fire” is one of the most terrifying things I’ve heard
*napalm sticks to kids intensifies*
Spitfire svary
@CodingCrusader1095 try me who made homemade mustard gas granades and used to throw them at people who got near the house
How about sticky poisonous fire?
Naplam as well it was a sticky gel
White Phosphorus:
+200 fire damage
+125 poison damage
+75% status duration
-500 Charisma
Per second. It's DoT
more dots
WTB > phosphorous riven :) #warframe players will know
@@stefandicitrajaya9746 that comment made no sense lol
MAke that +500 Poison damage. It's WORSE than cyanide, one of the go-to poisons.
"Is white phosphorus really that bad?"
*That one scene from Spec Ops: The Line*
"HE TURNED US INTO FUCKING KILLERS!"
We were helping....
Do you feel like a hero yet?
Ouch...
you mean the one where the game tells you you are bad for playing the game and doesnt even give you a choice?
2:26 This is a good example why you should not collect amber on the german baltic coast and put it in your pocket. It looks very similar to white Phosphorous and you might find that the pretty rock you just picked up is heating up your leg pretty aggressively.
"hmm guess there must've been a really fuckin angry mosquito inside this amber"
suddenly there's a hole through your leg and you're poisoned and burnt
Avoid this by simply putting either amber or white phosphorus in water
@@bigmike8586 lol
Broke: collect baltic amber and not pay attention
Woke: paying attention to not collect phosphorus
Chemist: intentionally seek out phosphorus instead of amber
I get the feeling this is cause of modern warfare that this is in my recommend in 2019
Beta 117 i only clicked because of mw
Same lol
Me 4
Yup
Lol me too
“Here in Australia, where clouds haven’t been invented yet”
Dead.
yup
Did you guys hear about the recent experiment to make the clouds more reflective to protect the Great Barrier Reef? Seriously, look it up. They're shooting salt flakes into the clouds. Read the article 2 days ago. I thought it was cool, and relevent. :-)
"Mad max"
Well, he just made a bunch of clouds with all that smoke, so I guess that makes him the inventor of Australian clouds..?
@@Ivar_Kahrstrom yes
Yep. Informative, interesting, promotes safety. It's gonna be deleted.
When? :-)
yep, not yet
One year later....
And as of July 18, 2019 it is not yet deleted. When will the deletion take place?
Still here.
As a chemistry teacher in the 60s, my grandfather once (out of doors, by way of a ramp and a very long string with the class standing around the edge of the rugby field) dropped a piece of white phosphorus into fuming nitric acid. You could do that sort of thing in those days.
Nightmare fuel
those woke liberals really ruined everything!
You know that's been used against Palestinians right?
@@bac-wo6ev so? Guns are also used to shoot Palestinians yet talking about them isn't taboo why should this be?
@@bac-wo6ev kind of irrelevant to the comment
"I live in an area where the Ozone layer is fucked and clouds haven't been invented yet"
I feel your pain.
WTF are clouds?
Right. You live on Mars.
@@jluvs2ride Close but not quite.
As an environmental scientist. We all will feel the pain soon if stuff doesn't change.
@@Jackshaft yawn..
"Is white phosphorus really that bad"
People who played spec ops the line: *flashbacks*
oh fu
"I'm pretty fucking far from being ok"
Are you feel like a hero yet?
Great game
"after all that you can still go home, lucky you..."
“Do you feel like a hero yet?”
-John Konrad
One of PS3 most underrated games bro
i just played the game and now searched about it LOL
Welcome to Dubai, gentlemen.
If i'm gonna be honest, the twist feels like it's telling you to pick up the cup, and then scolding you for picking up the cup.
It is undoubtedly a powerful scene, but thinking about it from what the game's message is (war bad, games based on horrific events weird motivator, that sort of thing), having no other option at that moment in time with the game hurrying you to use the mortar and then slapping you in the face for following its orders? Makes me think of an NPC telling you to get a spoon and then calling the guards because you took a spoon.
Was expecting Spec Ops reference, good job
I just got here and while I enjoyed my time my biggest comment is how amazingly professional the demonstrations are. Two bricks and a sheet of glass between the cameras, a tile on top of an old wooden barrier, and an old, rusty axe-head for the ignition panel, and doing nothing but burning a dangerous, self-described "sticky fire" near arid grass.
I fully support everything about this backyard chemistry and I love it.
I mean if it goes wrong and may burn up or get destroyed why use expensive mint condition materials? The arid grass on the other hand _is_ a significant fire hazard
"Nobody is allowed use it except when someone breaks the rules and does it anyway and all the other countries are like awww you shouldnt have done that" lmao as accurate as could be
Or they get invaded by the US and steal their oil.
@@ponyempiresunite9702 except that the US does not steal anyones Oil.
@@williamt.sherman9841 Are you was sleeping last 20+ years? Iraq, Lybia, Syria?.. Doesn't ring a bell? The last country USA tries to conquer was Syria, but Russia had defense obligations so it intervened oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/The-Battle-For-Syrias-Oil-Region.html www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/28/syria-us-troops-oil-fields-isis
@retsaM innavoiG I did the research. Unless by research you mean reading or watching western media full of propaganda for uneducated masses. Think for a moment about what you said. "Country A already has a lot of valuable resource (easily sold for the money). So, obviously, it doesn't need more of it (money)". It may sound logical only to braindead victims of public education...
Second fundamental mistake in your thought process is that 'country' decides to start the new war and get the oil. Country is an abstraction. It doesn't decides. People do.
Oligarchy/corporations lobby another war, and taxpayers pay for them, while those oligarchy/corporations sell goods for the billions of dollars to the military and gain free oil.
@retsaM innavoiG Ok, I'll try one last time. This conspiracy that "American (war) machine needs oi", which is easy to debunk, was created and presented to you by manipulators. They created invalid explanation and filled information space and, consequently, all the room in your brain.
The other explanations never got to you. In reality, oil, for example, from the Syrian Republic is sold to Turkey, Pakistan, India, etc.
About oil sold by some US companies - yes, it would cost more. But why it should bother *other* companies, which profit from selling goods, for example, to continue war in Afghanistan, for 67 billions every year? All the military contractors are getting a lot of money. All the "rebuilding" of destroyed countries costs billions every year.
Or *other* companies which got control over oil and natural gas in invaded countries?
“The fire is very angry” thank you for these exact scientific terms
Sounds like something StyroPyro would say
Now i'm read for the exam to enter college
FBI: "Why are you buying industrial size bags of cinnamon."
Me: "Cooking."
Whats in cinnamon?
@@jackdorsey8902 FBI: "Don't worry about it."
@@RatRatRattyRatRat *what.*
@@RatRatRattyRatRat *what.*
@@guiteshima white phosphorus
In the army i was always surrounded with dangerous stuff, explosives, tank rounds ammo etc and it never bothered me. I pulled guard duty on an ammo dump once and they had WP howitzer rounds in there and they made me VERY nervous.
*white phosphorus exists and is all sorts of volitile and poisonous*
Australian: imma poke it
As an Australian, yeah that sounds about right.
😹
That's how we roll mate! Haha
*volatile :p
*explodes and spits burning phosphorus* ITS ANGRY!!
Geneva Convention? More like Geneva Suggestion
only when murica does it. unfortunately.
It honestly wouldn't make a difference, unless Russia, Japan and Germany all started using it. The Conventions is honestly a joke. Warcrimes are suggestive at best, and written by the winners, no matter who you are.
@@bretarmstrong6303 that is the problem indeed. So countries willing to do war crimes need to be taken out. In some way
usern4metak3ns it’s stupid America done it and denies it. Tf are they doing?
@@anonymoushunter9808 a lot...
*Spec ops: The line flashbacks intensifies*
PTSD simulator 2012
Ce4Cuatro You can leave Dubai, but Dubai will never leave you.
Ce4Cuatro do you feel like a hero yet ?
Fuck I live in Dubai
@@k_nito7954 don't hang an american soldier, The player might not be so nice that playthrough.
In about 1987, I was in a high school chemistry class. During a lab exercise we used filter paper with white phosphorus. My lab partner put the filter paper in the trash can at the end of class which was the last class of the day. Apparently that evening the traces on the filter paper caught fire and luckily the janitor put it out after it burned an entire lab desk and area. The next day we were asked about it and fessed up but we weren't punished.
Tha janitor hopefully got a raise ... and medical attention ...
“This video will be demonetized and deleted.” Appears in recommended in August of 2019 with an ad.
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Its getting recommended cuz the new Call Of Duty lmao
"Its just white phosphorous it'll be fiiiiine"
This is a true chemist
And yet not the most irresponsible attitude toward it shown in the video.
zero I mean compared to shit like organic mercury its pretty safe.
"Is white phosphorus really that bad?"
"Do you feel like a hero yet?"
PTSD the game
You're here because you wanted to be something you're not.
@@Darasilverdragon _a_ _hero_
@MarineSlayer Walker what are you doing?!
Gentlemen.
Welcome to Dubai.
WP smoke is uniquely opaque to infrared, which makes it very useful in war.
Is white phosphorus bad?
Walker: nah fam, Conrad is bad
Everything done in Dubai was done by conrad
@@arandominternetperson437 "Conrad killed those men, not me"
Haha white phosphorus goes boom
You needed someone to blame. So you cast it on me: a dead man.
Gentlemen.
Welcome to Dubai.
The joke about clouds not being invented yet was 10/10.
Last time we had clouds was in 2011. That didn't end well. Very unsuccessful beta test.
pi$$er is the plural 🤣
⚡KaFraggin⚡
@@TrashDeviant how do you get rain?
What do you mean with "joke"??
@@saveriosassetti229 rain? what's that?
so this year's call of duty will have 2 outlawed weapons of war
*nice*
Lel Jdam what’s the other one ?
Black Lung mustard gas
@@CptSaveAHoe. nah, nukes
These weapons makes the game BETTER!!! Virtual Warcrimes are better as they educate WHY they are banned than real warcrimes which is why i learned white phosperous was bad in Homefront, watching your resistance comrade that is getting burned alive is a CLEAR message not to mess with it
@@juliusmoe-nstar8942 and the fact that it was later miss fired made it more messed up
As someone with scarring on 30%+ of my body from white phosphorous; I can say without a doubt that yes. this is dangerous stuff.
“Is white phosphorus really bad?”
All cod players: yes...
Green Gay white phosphorus inbound
All middle-eastern civilians with WP burns in fucking REAL LIFE....
K Mac's Kitchen calm down it’s a joke
Or maybe anyone who has been to a place that was just shot up with hydra rockets from attack helicopters, where their platoon sergeants or ell-tees told them, "Don't mess with any of those weird-looking little black lumps that are all over the place, and don't be downwind of them if they're still burning."
Especially ground war
Boy, the youtube algorithm delivered me gold..
everytime I see an old video, i check for comments like yours.
F×ck TH-cam's algorithm...
They didn't delete it, and now they promote it...
@@sanderd17 unexpectedly, something at youtube have changed for the better.
I watch sciencey stuff so this isn’t out of the blue for me.
"Seriously who has carbon disulphide"
Says the guy who has white phosphorus
underrated comment
which you can literally make by burning match box strikers
@@Ramog1000 ........You need a million strikers just to get a couple grams. I am over exaggerating but you do need a lot.
And benzene for some reason :D
That's gold😆
When I was in the Army, we stored drums of antifreeze outside of the ordinance bunkers on installations for putting out WP fires in case one started
I remember hearing horror stories from some of my instructors when I was in the army. People would get burned down to the bone, then when the doctors would go to clean the wound, it would ignite again
That totally sounds plausible, but holy hell I wish it wasn't. Jeez.
That's fucking horrifying.
@@gabbyn.3049 Horrifyingly hilarious.
@@m9078jk3 alright Mr. Edgelord
That’s disturbing
462 days and this video is still on TH-cam. It seems you have beaten the system.
There was an ad before it too. He beat it twice.
Don't jinx it!
Put 2 seconds of Beatles and it will be taken down in 5 minutes.
Recommended randomly. Another win.
Wait until either Récep Tayip Erdoğan, Bibi Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin or Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman see this video.
It be off TH-cam in 2 seconds flat after that.
Luckily they are all distracted by Pornhub.
Fun things to put in your super soaker:
Diluted white phosphorus
see you in hell mate
Until it explodes on your arm and chest :/
Found the war criminal
Yes...
Jon: Got you Greg, you gotta go sit out!
Greg (shirt smoking): nuh uh Jon, your a liar
... 2 min later Greg is doing a burning man impression
I think paint balls would be better...
Thank you for answering the question in the thumbnail. This avoids click bait having to wait the entire video for the answer. Now I can choose whether I watch the video or not. I was not really interested in the video per se but since you answered the question, I decided to click on your video to encourage other content creators to do the same.
Got put on my recommended, I love it. “The most illegal thing I’ve ever owned”
Noice
Chemical, not thing
This is how it must feel like to be under a watchlist
The most illegal thing ive ever owned was a pirated copy of half life 1
Yeah I feel like this was a great advertisement for a cartel target.
"Come visit me and get your precursors"
Every nation when things go smoothly: White phosphorus is so bad. Nobody should ever use it!
Every nation when things don't go smoothly: Hanz, bring the chemicals!
Technically every military uses some of it- tracer rounds as well as Incindiary ammunitions use phosphorous if i recall correctly. Also, Palestine ^^
Thermite ain't no joke neither
Powerful nations when everything goes fucked up: *nukes hahahahaha*
HAAANNZZZZ!!! Bring zee chemicaallzzzz!!!!
@@lovepeace9727 Pretty sure no one actually wants to launch a nuke.
An Australian talking about explosive chemistry over elevator music - that I call top-notch entertainment! XD
Greetings from Germany, mate.
Thomas ist ein Mann von Kultur
Ich liebe den Typen einfach
Ach des erklärt die spinne
Guttentag
Guys, HERE is Our Savior
YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins, NOT jesus, and “HERE IS THE PROOF”
From the Ancient Semitic Scroll:
"Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3)
Ancient Semitic Direct Translation
Yad - "Behold The Hand"
He - "Behold the Breath"
Vav - "Behold The NAIL"
When I was dabbling with chemistry way back in the ‘70s, it was easy to get red phosphorus, I converted it to white phosphorus by distilling it in an atmosphere of carbon dioxide.
I eventually got a pound of white phosphorus from Selby because I produced a letter from the Health Department which said I can purchase white phosphorus from a retail source. Basically Selby’s was being stricter than the Health Department. In those days you could purchase conc sulphuric or nitric acid over the counter. And also various alkali metals and alkaline earths. Biggest obstacle was they were expensive. The phosphorus and sodium wasn’t expensive.
Funnily enough sulfuric acid was available online here in France in Europe until 2021.
@@psirvent8 yeah, where I live, everything is deemed a precursor chemical. I wonder that you can still obtain sodium chloride or sodium hydroxide.
@@darylcheshire1618 Sodium chloride is table salt, therefore it's perfectly safe and edible.
Sodium hydroxide on the other hand is still sold as a drain cleaner, despite its corrosive nature, I suppose if too many people were to use it as a weapon (Like acids were in the UK) the govts would surely ban it too.
@@psirvent8Don't go telling lyes
@@wouldiwasshookspeared4087 LOL
As an American army vet I noticed that you completely glossed over the whole part where WP particles on your skin will continue to burn, straight through your clothes, skin and meat right down to the bone until it burns out or someone picks it off with tweezers. Fun stuff.
Do you stick the tweezers deep into the wound to the bone to get it out?
@@Mikemk_ Yes, if you actually want to remove it.
@@Mikemk_ Thanks for making an image inside my head
@@darmstadtium5274 It doesn't just have to be in your head! There's plenty of just *wonderful* images of World War 2 and Vietnam (in particular Vietnam) where people have been killed by WP.
I was listening to some memoirs of German soldiers who fought in Normandy on D-Day and some of their stories about how devastating the white phosphorus grenades were and what they described was disturbing.
One soldier said that he witnessed an officer putting one of the soldiers out of his misery as it seemed he was burning alive from the inside out after seemingly inhaling a spray of the liquid.
Whole bunkers of men being consumed by the pale flames, screaming for help - for their mothers. :(
War is hell, but I do thank you for your service. And, if you are a Vietnam vet - welcome home.
The fact that this can burn through someone top to bottom without extinguishing is truly terrifying
Real life Amaterasu
Him: "Incendinary"
Me: " Incendi-ary"
Him: "Incendinary"
Me: "YOU'RE EATING HAIR!"
I'm still amazed your comment took longer than a few seconds to find - good stuff man 👍
Was just looking for this comment, I knew someone would beat me to it. Hearing incendinary so many times definitely brought the video down to a 9 from a 10.
Fucking Family Guy reference, nice!
@@bretarmstrong6303 Cool Hwip.
I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt... I'm american, so I thought maybe it was like an "aluminum vs. aluminium" sort of thing. If that makes any kind of sense...
Interesting that this got recommended to me now of all times.
i bought some of those "magic smoke paper magic trick amazing wow fun party special effect paper" off of wish not thinking anything of it and i got that shit everywhere and it does NOT wash off and a lot of time i would just like get it on my hands lightly rinse them off then go and eat the only reason i stopped was because it was kinda dark one time when i was messing with some and i noticed that shit was GLOWING and i proceeded to do a mass google search for weather it was toxic or not and that led me here
and that kids is how i found Explosions&Fire and almost killed my entire family with white phosphorus
That is why I don't trust wish
How have you not died?
What the fuck
You get what you wish for.
Zero punctuation makes that impossible to read.
white phosphorus isn’t that bad usually i can use a stim shot and be fine
White phosphorus is underpowered, Geneva was made by pansy's
lmao
what the fuck you have seen it on hardcore :/
But the smoke is annoying
*Coughing intensifies*
I come from the future, I am sad to say that this is relevant again today.
me:
*casually joins match*
Narrator literally 0.7 seconds later:
*eNeMy wHiTe pHoSpHoRuS iNcOmInG!*
The most disheartening line in the entire game.
It sucks because no matter where you hide, you're still weak and can be killed easily. I fucking hate it so much. 😂
It's literally aids.
They need to get rid of it from drop zone. Let's be honest
Nigga said narrator 😐
United States army: civilians should never be attacked or Targeted
United States Airforce: ding dong incendiary bomb
*loads cluster bombs with malicious intent*
Do you live in the united states?
Fucking lol 😂
It's not white phosphorus. It's called "freedom powder"
It's like two arms connected to a schizophrenic mind. The left arm wants to stay righteous and does In nomine Patris sign, while the right wanks off. Which is pretty apt metaphor for the US chairforce (they are wankers, get it)
Alternate title: Is a warcrime really that bad?
Gage mOglesby things aren’t bad because they’re a warcrime. They’re a warcrime because they’re bad.
Spec ops the line flashbacks...
Excuse me that's a Valefisk line.
I am a wanted by the interpol for commiting war crimes in nigeria *stuff*
Crazy is having rules in wartime...nope can't kill that way ...wat if I'm being tortured and white phosphorus is my only escape? ? Fine but only if ur tortured pow..lol
With the news Israel is using WP in Gaza, this video suddenly becomes popular again.
To be fair, as he said, every country in every modern conflict is using white phosphorus.
There's an interesting medical condition called "Phosphorus jaw" where people affected by it had hideous malformed faces due to the Phosphorus vapours being absorbed into their jawbones. Effectively dissolving their jaws over 3-6 months. Creating abscesses and having the living tissue experience necrosis. I kid you not, having their jawbones rot from the inside. This was common for match stick factory personal. Until they got proper safety equipment.
Jesus christ, and i thought the radio girls were bad
Originally called phossy jaw
@@affegpus4195 yeah man those poor radio girls. They had no idea what radio waves did to them. Tragic.
It took them years to figure out the problem and more years before the factory owners could be pressured to provide gloves and masks.
@@idunnobouthat7092 -_-
I feel like I’m on another list now.
“another”?
DemolisherMK1 we don’t talk about the first list
No, the flag just gets bigger, and brighter red..
year and a half later. Video not deleted. ads in video. and video on TH-cam front-page recommends.
so in conclusion Phosphorus is great and we should all go out and play with some
Meanwhile Reddit narrators getting demonetized for saying heck
I really love it when I collect shiny stones on the shore here in Germany and have to gamble if Im gonna ignite myself or not. Really loved it how the allies just dumped a huge load of bombs into the sea instead of getting rid of them the environmentally friendly way.
"Is white phosphorus REALLY that bad?"
Brought to you by War Crimes Gang.
"Imagine not bombing orphanages"
-This post was made by white phosphorus gang
White phosphorus is not banned bye the Geneva convention its not a war crime
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White phosphorus is used in illumination rounds for mortars and artillery, as well as for marking targets with smoke.
The kind of people who think that it's used in "war crimes" are idiots who have never been anywhere near the military.
@@MrEvanfriend Yep, that's right. You know all about that, don't you, Mr Military Man? Of course, turning on the news once in a while would reveal that white phosphorus is frequently used in war crimes by, amongst others, both sides of the Syrian Civil War. But no, I'm sure you're right, this highly dangerous chemical weapon is only ever used in illumination rounds...
I worked on making 155 shells filled with WP when I was in the Army. The rounds were used to set smoke screens. The smoke from burning Phosphorus is extremely toxic and the flames when it burns burn extremely long and hot. One thing not covered in this video is that if you get WP on you it tends to burrow to your bones and it will destroy the bones ability to make marrow. One of my coworkers got a speck on his ankle and it took two bone scrapes to get it all out. Is is also a possible carcinogen.
Bone scrapes? Yikes.
how can that be ? I did the matchbook striker thing when I was about 10 or 12 years old, it also glows in the dark when you rub your fingers, and then chemistry checks out, it's turning red into white phosphorus. So, I did this at least 2 or 3 times, had that shit on my fingers and never really worried about cleaning my fingers, just a quick wipe with a towel from memory. I'm 52 now, no bones or fingers falling off, so ?....
@@psycronizer That is because the amount of white phosphorus is so small that it ignites spontaneously. It doesn't have time to get beneath the layer of your skin.
@@psycronizer so at 51 years old you assume that a smudge on your fingertips is the same thing as weaponized shells filled with it?
@@psycronizer is 52 your age or your IQ
Whats interesting is that if you try to collect bits of amber at the coast of germany (which is something that some actually make a living of) you´re always reminded that the yellowish/red piece that you think is amber could be old white phospherus ammo used during the wars so everyone who wants to collect amber on the shores of germany: never ever pick it up with bare hands, you could loose parts of your body.
That sounds horrific, but why would it not have burnt itself away when exposed to air and sun on the beach?
It’s 17.10.2023 and Israel is still using white phosphorus against civilians to this day
yup
Yay🎉
@@therealhelmholtz yay to your dead father
Like Russia in Ukraine.
@@imisskatelyn9517have they been? I haven't heard as much about Ukraine in a few months, damn. Here's hoping at some point the international community will stop being cowards and come to give serious aid and security to both peoples 😮💨
"Striker 3-1. Dropping Whiskey Pete on your mark."
Lmao
Just a drunk guy named Pete
Shouldn't it be Whiskey Papa? 😂
@@djaxup Really should be Willy Pete. That was its nickname. Wasn't really referred to as a phonetic phrase
No I got that from a video game
"Do you feel like a hero yet?"
We were helping.
I expected a spec ops: the line reference somewhere in this comment section
Feel like a hero! for only $3.99 per month get the white phosphorous loadout
They looked like hostiles to me on thermals officer!
Right now I sure do. I'm killing the monster responsible for all of this
*shoots himself in the head*
(Drops white phosphorus on ants)
“This was your fault, god dammit!”
"I... I Didnt mean to hurt anybody"
HE TURN US INTO FUCKING KILLERS!!!
Do you feel like a hero now
@@mocca3633
"No one ever does, Walker"
"weeeeeeeeeee" - Logan, probably
The algorithm's sick humor strikes again
"I was standing in front of the fire exit in a casino and security told me I had to move because I was blocking a fire exit. If you have legs and are flammable, you are never blocking a fire exit." - Mitch Hedberg (RIP)
"do u feel like a hero yet?"
"He TURNED US, into FUCKING KILLERS"
FINALLY SOME SPEC OPS BOISS
@@MrPringlesron yessir
"The U.S. Army does not condone killing civilians, but none of this is real, so why should you care?"
@@arandominternetperson437 nice to know there are still fans out there
Huh white Phosphor where do i know that fro... (Spec:Ops Flashbacks kick in)
oh no.....
Oh.... Oh no....
Screams in PTSD
*screams in war crime*
😂 cod mw gonna bring up bad memories.
"Do you feel like a hero yet?"
I subbed to this channel instantly on seeing the name "Explosions & FIre". I haven't even watched a video yet, but I am fascinated with this kind of chemistry. I imagine I will go through a lot of your stuff now.
My eye twitches when he says "incendinary"
Yep
Its horibly anoying is'nt it?
what's wrong with it?
@Nope Nope I don't mind that so much but the worst for me is when people say "resiliency". It's already that type of word! You don't need to add a y on the end to make it the type of word it already is, gah! Ah, pet language beefs are fun to moan about.
@Nope Nope i havne't even noticed he spelled it a bit differently, although i spell it as you said in the first case
"Is white phosphorus really that bad?"
Me, remembering a really messed up picture I saw once: Yes...
Your eyes opened for the first time, it hurt didn't it?
@Keith Marshall if you're talking about the naked one, I'm pretty sure that was napalm.
I want to see that picture but at the same time, I don't want to.
@@tialapioneer7604 look up Spec Ops: The Line.
The normal reaction to phosphorous is: "Why is my *everything* on fire?"
1:47 I followed this shit as a kid when I was into magic
I am very glad I'm not dead
How harmful was this? I did the same thing and now I'm curious if there could b lasting effects? Lmk if you know lol
@@SaltyAsTheSeanot very it is in the miceograms
When i was a kid i've made some WP exactly like it was shown from matches and used my fingers to produce smoke. It was fun untin skin from that very plce that was covered in WP peeled off and i lost sensetivity in my indexes fingertips. It wasnt particulaly fun. If you value yuor life dont do this.
Holy shit
Fukc Dave hax, I hate that bithc now.
@@wumbology3109 do you really wanna talk shit on the dude with access to white phosphorus tho?
That's horrifying. That stuff is nasty
@@keir3040 why not lololololol
Mortar man here...
Had a brand new officer come in and wanted to drop Willie Pete (White Phosphorus) danger close and run through it for a cool picture.
Needless to say he didnt last.
Marine mortar man here--That is seriously the most retarded idea I've ever heard come out of an officer, and I've heard plenty.
You should have indulged him. One less moron becoming a bird colonel.
Sheldon Dinkleberg war criminal
oh ok
Okay definitely misinterpreted that. By didn't last long I thought you guys let him run through it.
White phosphorus is basically “Warcrime: The explosive”.
Edit: To Ryke Haven, imagine taking a joke seriously.
Dr Bright is not allowed to get anywhere near white phosphorus
Felix vB I wouldn’t want to get near it because it scares the shit out of me.
@@purplehaze2358 Test it to the lizard
1 day later: Dr Bright is not allowed to torture scp-682 with white phosphorus
@@esplooze you can tame 682 with a rolled up newspaper and belly rubs
Hey isn't Israel using this stuff this week?
Oi, calling out Israel's use of an illegal weapon is antisemitic.
@@Meow_Zedong_1949 no, you are a nazi for calling for a ceasefire 🤣
*in british accent*
*" ENEMY WHITE PHOSPHORUS INCOMING!"*
69th like :D
I’m convinced there’s no such thing as a friendly white prosperous
More like a southern English accent.
Gay
@@spacecat3198 exactly, no such thing as a British accent
I was in the military in the 70's and this stuff scared the hell out of us as we could see what it did in an operational area. I don't care what anyone says I'm still scared of the stuff. 😅
Same here. I heard a story about this stuff and I had to see for myself. It really is horrifying.
That's because you have brains 👌
Thanks for your service.
@@andrewfornes5320 psycho
trust me, nobody's gonna tell you anything that won't make you even more terrified of it.
This guys cheating, he didnt even get any kills and has a white phosphorus
Cmon Infinity Ward
Lol I swear I got on shoot house domination once and when the game started all I heard is "WHITE PHOSPHORUS INBOUND"
I can honestly see that as a bug in the game.
Someone calls in care package, guy with no kills steals care package, guy gets rare chance of package having white death.
Lol I am fan of white phosphorus
This game's broken. Time for a refund.
The good old M-34 White Phosphorous Smoke Grenade, or "Willie-Pete" as I knew it in my post-Vietnam, pre-Iraq Marine Corps career. Never forget being at Range 3, The Basic School, when, in 1978, an enlisted instructor demonstrated the grenade. He said 'don't even think about throwing this grenade because its bursting radius is 34 meters; i.e., "Effective Casualty Radius (ECA)" and not one of you can throw the 27 oz grenade 35 meters.' He taped the grenade to an engineer stake "out there a ways", connected its pin with a piece of slash-wire, then safely well out of the ECR, pulled the pin and we watched as white phosphorous was splattered in every direction.
We were at a safe distance. "Wille-Pete" is no joke.
This guy is the R rated version of Bill Nye The Science guy
He doesn't bullshit ya though..
Don't ever compare our hero to that dumbass sellout ever again.
@@pietrotettamanti3183 lol
Except he has an actual science degree, rather than engineering.
[Edit] Also he doesn't try to convice your kids that there are 72 genders.
Trailer-park Nile Red
You missed another aspect of the smoke; as it is hot it blanks out thermal imagers.
Intensely irritating.... is an understatement for an acid forming in your lungs
Phosphoric acid... No shit sherlock that thing eat glass!
@@fss1704 it's also in coca cola.
@@fss1704 we're not made out of glass tho, I know you were just saying how versatile the acid is and im being a cuck but simply naming one of its properties like that doesnt mean much in terms of its danger towards humans
Aaaand it is the most letal gas of WW1. Such a safe thing huh
hether an acid can dissolve glass or not has absolutely no bearing on how it will react with organic tissue. They're two completely different types of compounds. That's like saying oxygen will eat your skin off because it causes iron to rust. It's a common line of reasoning, but fortunately it is flawed. Otherwise cola would melt your skin because it has phosphoric acid in it.
Oh boy. Israel is gonna be in sooo much trouble if they are no longer exempt from international laws.
"ENEMY WHITE PHOSPHORUS INBOUND!!"
Ugh, here we go again :/
"clouds haven't been invented yet"
that got me good.
"White phosphorous dissolves quite well in benzene!"
*Well yes, but actually no.*
Currently being rained down on several places in the World
Video that you kept saying TH-cam would take down, is the first video I've seen of yours and came from TH-cam recommended.
Try monetizing it.
Oh, and subscribed
@Gabriel Lebron thank you
ditto
Same here.
To the other two guys, you found the video, or you're now feeling cursed?
Ditto to your comment not the comment on your comment or the comment where you commented below the comment under your comment
"And Hydrogen Cyanide is a nasty fucker of a thing" is my favorite piece of scientific information ever
Time stamp?
@@TheBooklyBreakdown0:47
For 14 years , I worked in the world's largest WP factory, which made 250M pounds yearly. This shit is no joke and should be outlawed by Geneva convention. I have seen it melt steel like it was butter. I was around thousands of phos fires. The P2O5 is a white cloud, but it is not 'smoke' and would drift over the parking lot. After the vinyl roof & paint on my car was ruined during a single 8 hour shift, HR told me to never bring a nice vehicle to work again.
What legal uses are there for WP? How did this factory stay open?
@@loganiushere Proctor and Gamble was #1 customer, back when it was still used in laundry detergent. Derivative products were used at trace levels in every day items as diverse as vitamins and gasoline.
It was open for a little over 50 years. The company was hiding serious environmental issues that left it as one of the 50 worst Superfund sites. The ground water on the property will still be poison 1000 years from now. There was a federal court decision a few years back on pollution issues if you want more information. YT won't allow links , but Shoshone Bannock tribes sued FMC Corp and Judge Winmill found for the tribe and was upheld by 9th Circuit & US Supreme Court.
@@loganiushere anything's legal if you make enough money doing it
@@loganiushere phosphates are used mostly in fertilizer. Despite being one of the deadliest compounds known to man it does give vital nitrogen to our plants without which we couldn't sustain our population.
@@zealousdoggo There's no nitrogen in phosphates, mate. But plants require phosphorus as well.
As someone who was in artillery back in the day, and handled the old Willie P shells- YES. YES. IT IS WORSE THAN YOU THINK.
He says when it was his job to drop it all over people
@@davidemelia6296 Crazy when someone has an informed opinion, isn't it?