Chili Grenade
The chili clocks 1,000,000 Scoville units, the scientific measure of hotness, almost 400 times that of Tabasco or jalapenos.
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April 5, 2010 at 6:20 AM
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The Indian military is deploying a tear gas hand grenade made from Assam’s bhut jolokia, the world’s hottest chili as part of its weapons arsenal.
According to R. B. Srivastava, director of the Life Sciences Department at the Defense Research and Development Organization, the thumb sized grenade is an “effective nontoxic weapon because its pungent smell can choke terrorists and force them out of their hide-outs.” The laboratory is also testing bhut jolokia aerosol sprays for mob control. |
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