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Originally Posted by Bill8
once again this is foolish. presumably you didn't read your own link about phossy jaw, which is caused of course by white phosphorus, not the non-toxic red phosphorus which used to be used to make meth.
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You use red phosphorus but since white phosporus is an allotrope of white phosphorus, when you heat it you turn a part of your red phosphorus in white phosphoric that is highly toxic.
This is ONE of the problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropes_of_phosphorus
"phosphorus can be converted to white phosphorus upon heating to 260 °C, as can be seen when one strikes a match."
believe me i'm better than you in chemistry.
http://www.simple-ways-to-make-metha...th-recipe.html