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Phosphorous is an example of rapid combustion or spontaneous combustion ? And why ?

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Phosphorous mainly exist in 3 Forms
White phosphorous, Red phosphorous and Black phosphorous.
Out of which white phosphorus is highly reactive and burns spontaneously low temperature (âˆ¼ 30degree ) in presence of air. Whereas other allotropes are quite stable and do not ignite easily.

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