Usually means: Incendiary weapon, burns fiercely, toxic.
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  1. white phosphorus: Merriam-Webster
  2. white phosphorus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. white-phosphorus: Wordnik
  4. white phosphorus: Wiktionary
  5. White Phosphorus, White phosphorus (weapon), White phosphorus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  2. White phosphorus (weapon), white phosphorus: Medical dictionary
  3. White phosphorus: Drug Medical Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (white phosphorus)

noun:  (chemistry) The most common allotrope of phosphorus; a yellow-white waxy solid that is insoluble in water and spontaneously combusts on exposure to air to form clouds of phosphorus pentoxide; used as a military smokescreen and as an incendiary weapon.

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