What is Holme's signal? pls help me.... This is urgent....
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Phosphine gets ignited spontaneously as it comes in contact with air and also ignites acetylene. Thus a bright red flame is produced which is accompanied by huge smoke due to the burning of phosphine. This serves as a signal to the approaching ships.
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It is a mixture of calcium carbide and calcium phoshine placed in a container which reacts with water to produce gases(PH3 and C2H2) to which flames forms as signal
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