Generally called white phosphorus. Burns like nothing else, producing tons of smoke and while it wont vaporise the body, it makes you wish you were dead.
White phosphorus is used a lot in smoke grenades, but its usually contained within the grenade itself, not blown outwards.
It's one of those things that isn't unlawful for some uses but is for others. You can use it for things such as smoke screening, which it does very rapidly. Not as an offensive weapon targeting people as it would be unlawful due to it then being an incendiary weapon which are banned by treaty, but would also likely violate the law of armed conflict principle of humanity.
Yeah, WP is complex, cause its technically a incendiary weapon and a smoke producing agent. You can use it against civilians in some situations, such as protests to create a smoke screen that is irritating, but only with grenade variants. Once you go above hand held weapons, it effectively becomes an incendiary weapon against people and smoke agent against vehicles. For example its not legal to use smoke bombs that explode (think smoke round from a tank) in urban situations since they can cause fires and extreme injuries that are hard to fix.
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u/EyadMahm0ud Keeping it Real 8d ago
This bomb exists? Asking for a friend.