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Delps8 said:

Artillery and tanks had white phosphorus (Willie Pete) will burn but the primary use was for smoke/marking rounds. Magnesium is really unstable.

Further upthread was a comment about green tipped rounds. Ours were red tipped. "green garbage cans" were Soviet rounds.

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StonedGardener said:

I didn't know that elemental Mg was radioactive, hmmm.I do know that Mg is used as a light source (eg. signaling, illumination, as with a flare
over the battleground). More so, it's employed on combat jets as a defensive measure against infrared guided missiles. The jettisoned Mg flares emit more infrared(heat) radiation, than the jet exhaust.
Mg is highly reactive when exposed to other elements/compounds. By itself, in air and water ( at "normal" conditions...not excessive heat) it's non-reactive due to the oxide layer on surface, caused by air exposure. Blah-blah,blah...Apologies for rambling...that damn weed ! By the way, thanks so much for the sacrifices.

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StonedGardener said:

I didn't know that elemental Mg was radioactive, hmmm.I do know that Mg is used as a light source (eg. signaling, illumination, as with a flare
over the battleground). More so, it's employed on combat jets as a defensive measure against infrared guided missiles. The jettisoned Mg flares emit more infrared(heat) radiation, than the jet exhaust.
Mg is highly reactive when exposed to other elements/compounds. By itself, in air and water ( at "normal" conditions...not excessive heat) it's non-reactive due to the oxide layer on surface, caused by air exposure. Blah-blah,blah...Apologies for rambling...that damn weed ! By the way, thanks so much for the sacrifices.

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Delps8 said:

Mg isn't radioactive unstable but my recollection is that pure magnesium will catch "combust easily". IIRC, when I was in high school, it was stored in oil but that was a bit over half a century ago so take that for what it's worth (I graduated from high school in 1972).

[time passes] Just checked chatGPT and there's no particular need to store it that way. I went to school outside the US so perhaps they took different precautions?

Never knew that about the flares that aircraft use. I'd most definitely want "the best and the brightest" (couldn't resist) if I was a pilot.

"it's non-reactive due to the oxide layer on surface, caused by air exposure." — that makes sense.

"By the way, thanks so much for the sacrifices." - I gave more than some and less than others.

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GreatwhiteNorth said:

Mg is not radioactive, it is violently reactive (with water when burning).

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EhCndGrower said:

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