According to WHO, white phosphorus is a chemical substance that "ignites instantly upon contact with oxygen" and is "very ...

Beirut, Lebanon – Israel has intensively used white phosphorus on a strip in southern Lebanon that matches a zone its army has marked as a red “no go” zone on maps it distributes to Lebanese people, ...

but the problem we have with phosphorus is that there's just too much. "That phosphourous is allowing algal blooms to occur, they're stripping oxygen out of the river and that's where I mean we ...