[Syntyr]

"It embeds in the skin and burns right through, like the aliens blood in the movie Alien... and dumping water on it makes it worse!"

Actually the recommended course of treatment is removal of any affected clothing, covering with water soaked bandages followed by under water debreidment.

Water puts out WP. Thermite is another matter. It carries its own chemically bonded oxygen supply so it can not be put out with water. In fact when you dump water on it you get steam explosions.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Water puts out WP. Thermite is another matter. It carries its own chemically bonded oxygen supply so it can not be put out with water. In fact when you dump water on it you get steam explosions.

Ooops! As a former munitions troop, I should have remembered that.... I knew there was some nasty stuff where water was not the solution!