English-French translations for white phosphorus

• phosphore blanc
  Savez-vous ce qu’est le phosphore blanc? Do you know what white phosphorus is?
  Connaissez-vous les effets du phosphore blanc, que les Américains admettent désormais avoir utilisé à Falloudja? Do you know about the effects of white phosphorus, which the Americans now admit to having used in Fallujah?
  Nous soutenons l'interdiction de l'utilisation du phosphore blanc comme arme, mais il faut noter que celui-ci a d'autres utilisations sur les champs de bataille, pour les écrans de fumée par exemple. We support a ban on the use of white phosphorus a weapon, but it has other battlefield uses, for example for smokescreen.
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Definition of white phosphorus

• The most common allotrope of phosphorus; a yellow-white waxy solid that is insoluble in water and spontaneously combusts on exposure to air to form clouds of phosphorus pentoxide; used as a military smokescreen and as an incendiary weapon

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