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In the next five years Beijing has promised to close or relocate about 400 smoke-producing factories, raise auto-emission standards and plant enough trees to claim that more than half the city is forested.
The Games Begin 2007
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Below was a counter laden with invisible-ink pens, little magic smoke-producing tubes, and puzzles composed of interlocking metal rings.
Deep Waters Jayne Ann Krentz 1996
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It is applied as follows: by means of bellows, or some exploding, smoke-producing rocket, smoke is forced into the system of pipes, the ends plugged up, and the escape of the smoke watched for, as wherever there are defects in the pipes the smoke will appear.
The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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The boys grinned with delight at their task, and danced about, heaping up the smoke-producing leaves and stalks, till feeling satisfied that they might ascend, there was a bit of an altercation as to who should go, ending in Chicory giving way to his brother as he had been ill.
Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870
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White phosphorus (WP) is a flare - and smoke-producing incendiary device [1] or smoke-screening agent that is made from a common allotrope of the chemical element phosphorus.
WN.com - Articles related to Israel is spying because it can't wage war - top Hizbullah MP 2010
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White phosphorus (WP) is a flare - and smoke-producing incendiary device [1] or smoke-screening agent that is made from a common allotrope of the chemical element phosphorus.
WN.com - Articles related to Israel is spying because it can't wage war - top Hizbullah MP 2010
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[2] White phosphorus (WP) is a flare - and smoke-producing incendiary weapon, [1] or smoke-screening agent, made from a common allotrope of the chemical element phosphorus.
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[2] White phosphorus (WP) is a flare - and smoke-producing incendiary weapon, by: you @ soon
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The shells contained white phosphorous (known as "Willy Pete" in military slang), a smoke-producing, spontaneously flammable agent designed to obscure battle territory that also can ignite buildings or cause grotesque burns if it touches the skin.
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White phosphorous is a smoke-producing incendiary device used as a smoke-screen to mask troop movement, but also functions as an anti-personal weapon by causing severe casualties from burning flakes.
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