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<benboomREMOVE_THIS_PART-EDF136.07453407042000@news.povray.org>, Rick 
Adams <ben### [at] xprtnet> wrote:

> The originals (in the book) also had black cannisters of deadly gas they 
> tossed about, but I guess they aren't as spectacular visually as what 
> we've all come to love...

I remember it as very lethal black smoke which turned into a harmless 
dark brown powder on contact with water. The humans used superheated 
steam as a defense against it, as I remember. I don't recall the method 
of delivery, but canisters sound right.
But it's been a long time since I read that book...
Maybe make one leaning at a large tilt on a crumpled leg, with a 
decomposing Martian body inside...and a modified steam locomotive 
blowing superheated steam at the remains of a cloud of smoke.

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