Why should gloves be worn when handling white phosphorus


Two important allotropes of elemental phosphorus are white phosphorus and red phosphorus:

A. Why should gloves be worn when handling white phosphorus?

B. Why are firefighters advised to use dry sand rather than wet sand to extinguish a small red phosphorus fire?

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