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From: ROBERSON@***.EDU
Subject: Phosphorous rounds
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 93 20:41:47 CET
Ignoring the problem of premature ignition, phosphorous rounds need
oxygen to burn, not generic "air". Is there enough oxygen in the blood to
keep phosphorous burning?

Now that I've asked the questoin, I recall that a man with WP on his arm
could jump in a lake. The burning would increase as the oxygen on the lake
fanned the fuel, but would suffocate soon before more oxygenated water could
replace it.

I am sick right now, so pardon my rambling



J Roberson

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