Word: thermit
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...should not be an uncommon occurrence to find mustard casualties soaring close to the 100% mark in the smaller units. . . . In addition to these mustard casualties it seems to me that we must expect and prepare for another type of burn. Today there is more than one indication that thermit and white phosphorous are going to be dumped on rear area installations in appalling quantities. But even if we discount this rather gruesome possibility, we cannot escape the gasoline motor. Our tanks, our trucks, our reconnaissance and combat cars . . . will present a continuing fire and explosion hazard. And as they...
...thermit fame, the chemical (aluminium powder and oxide of iron) with which he last .month relieved Oil City and Franklin, Pa., of an ice-gorge in the Allegheny River; with which he will experiment at "burning up icebergs" this summer in Greenland (TIME, March...
Berg Burning. At Montreal, Dr. Howard T. Barnes, Physics Professor at McGill University, announced an expedition in June to Greenland to experiment with heat mines on icebergs. After 30 years of ice research, he has concocted a chemical he calls "thermit," nonexplosive, non-inflammable, rendered dangerous only by contact with ice, when it develops intense heat in a few seconds. The plan is to apply "thermit" to Greenland's west coast glaciers, "burn them up" before they break off in the huge chunks so dangerous to Atlantic shipping. Floating bergs will also be attacked, the scientists rowing alongside, planting...