1) American invention 2) An incendiary 3) Bomb ingredient 4) Bomb jelly 5) Combative gel 6) Deadly jelly 7) Dresden decimator of 1945 8) Fire bomb substance 9) Fire-bomb ingredient 10) Firebomb liquid 11) Firebomb material 12) Flame-thrower adjunct 13) Flame-thrower fluid 14) Flame-thrower fuel 15) Flamethrower compound
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Napalm is a mixture of a thickening/gelling agent and petroleum or a similar fuel for use in an incendiary device. It was initially used against buildings, and later was used primarily as an anti-personnel weapon that sticks to skin and causes severe burns when on fire. Napalm was developed in 1942, in a secret laboratory at Harvard University in ...
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the aluminum salt or soap of a mixture of naphthenic and aliphatic carboxylic acids (organic acids of which the molecular structures contain rings ... [4 related articles]
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Fuel used in flamethrowers and incendiary bombs. Produced from jellied petrol, it is a mixture of naphthenic and palmitic acids. Napalm causes extensive burns because it sticks to the skin even when...
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Napalm is a fuel used in incendiary bombs and flame throwers. It is produced from jellied petrol, and is a mixture of naphthenic and palmitic acids.
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An abbreviated form of sodium (Na) palmitate. It is a gel made up of some readily burning hydrocarbon oils and soap. It is used a sin incendiary weapon with wide destructive power as it sticks to the target while burning.
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n] - gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps
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noun gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps; highly incendiary liquid used in fire bombs and flame throwers
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Fuel used in flamethrowers and incendiary bombs. Produced from jellied petrol, it is a mixture of naphthenic and palmitic acids. Napalm causes extensive burns because it sticks to the skin even when aflame. It was widely used by the US Army during the Vietnam War, and by Serb forces in the civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina
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a highly incendiary jellylike substance used in fire bombs, flamethrowers, etc.
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