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<span class="toctext">Noun</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-3"><a href="#Synonyms"><span class="tocnumber">1.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Synonyms</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-4"><a href="#Translations"><span class="tocnumber">1.1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Translations</span></a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="English">English</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=white_phosphorus&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="interproject-box sister-wikipedia sister-project noprint floatright"><div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg/44px-Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="44" 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style="margin-left: 60px;">English <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> has an article on:<div style="margin-left: 10px;"><b class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/white_phosphorus_munition" class="extiw" title="w:white phosphorus munition">white phosphorus munition</a></b></div></div><span class="interProject"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/white_phosphorus_munition" class="extiw" title="w:white phosphorus munition">Wikipedia </a></span></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81571951"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun">Noun</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=white_phosphorus&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Noun"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="headword-line"><strong class="Latn headword" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/white#English" title="white">white</a> <a href="/wiki/phosphorus#English" title="phosphorus">phosphorus</a></strong> (<i><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable" title="Appendix:Glossary">uncountable</a></i>)</span> </p> <ol><li><span class="usage-label-sense"><span class="ib-brac">(</span><span class="ib-content"><a href="/wiki/chemistry" title="chemistry">chemistry</a></span><span class="ib-brac">)</span></span> The most <a href="/wiki/common" title="common">common</a> <a href="/wiki/allotrope" title="allotrope">allotrope</a> of phosphorus; a <a href="/wiki/yellow" title="yellow">yellow</a>-<a href="/wiki/white" title="white">white</a> <a href="/wiki/waxy" title="waxy">waxy</a> <a href="/wiki/solid" title="solid">solid</a> that is insoluble in <a href="/wiki/water" title="water">water</a> and <a href="/wiki/spontaneously" title="spontaneously">spontaneously</a> <a href="/wiki/combust" title="combust">combusts</a> on <a href="/wiki/exposure" title="exposure">exposure</a> to <a href="/wiki/air" title="air">air</a> to form clouds of <a href="/wiki/phosphorus_pentoxide" title="phosphorus pentoxide">phosphorus pentoxide</a>; used as a <a href="/wiki/military" title="military">military</a> <a href="/wiki/smokescreen" title="smokescreen">smokescreen</a> and as an <a href="/wiki/incendiary" title="incendiary">incendiary</a> <a href="/wiki/weapon" title="weapon">weapon</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole"><span class="cited-source"><b>2023</b> October 9, Ruth Michaelson, Ben Doherty, “Israel ‘going on the offensive’ after retaking territories overrun by Hamas”, in <cite>The Guardian</cite>‎<sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/09/supernova-festival-israel-attack-hamas-military-death-toll-kibbutz-reim">[1]</a></sup>, <small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0261-3077">→ISSN</a></small>:</span><dl><dd><div class="h-quotation"><span class="Latn e-quotation cited-passage" lang="en">The IDF spokesperson provided no comment on whether it had halted the practice, or the reported use of <b>white phosphorus</b> in Gaza, a densely populated area and home to more than 2 million people.</span></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Synonyms">Synonyms</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=white_phosphorus&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Synonyms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/icy_noctiluca#English" title="icy noctiluca">icy noctiluca</a></span></li> <li><span class="Latn" lang="en"><a href="/wiki/yellow_phosphorus#English" title="yellow phosphorus">yellow phosphorus</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Translations">Translations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=white_phosphorus&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Translations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-most_common_allotrope_of_phosphorus"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">most common allotrope of phosphorus</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="most common allotrope of phosphorus"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output .translations{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .translations-cell{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-lightyellow,#FFFFe0);vertical-align:top;text-align:left}</style> <ul><li>Armenian: <span class="trreq" data-lang="hy"><i>please add this translation if you can</i></span></li> <li>Azerbaijani: <span class="Latn" lang="az"><a href="/w/index.php?title=a%C4%9F_fosfor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ağ fosfor (page does not exist)">ağ fosfor</a></span></li> <li>Chinese: <dl><dd>Mandarin: <span class="Hani" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E7%99%BD%E7%A3%B7#Mandarin" title="白磷">白磷</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%99%BD%E7%A3%B7" class="extiw" title="zh:白磷">(zh)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cmn-Latn" class="tr Latn">báilín</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, <span class="Hant" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E9%BB%83%E7%A3%B7#Mandarin" title="黃磷">黃磷</a></span><span class="Zsym mention" style="font-size:100%;">／</span><span class="Hans" lang="cmn"><a href="/wiki/%E9%BB%84%E7%A3%B7#Mandarin" title="黄磷">黄磷</a></span><span class="tpos"> <a href="https://zh.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%BB%83%E7%A3%B7" class="extiw" title="zh:黃磷">(zh)</a></span> <span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span lang="cmn-Latn" class="tr Latn">huánglín</span><span 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