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If not, then perhaps they could use hilium in an enclosed container over the bomb to displace the oxygen around bomb?
Army Rumour Service 2010
chained_bear commented on the word hilium
"...the anatomy of cheerfulness, what it is—plausibly said to have its seat in the spleen, perhaps in that curious set of minute granular bodies between the hilium and the gastric impression—only disordered spleens could have given the gland its indifferent reputation..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 255
March 5, 2008