Napalm
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English: Napalm is any of a number of flammable liquids used in warfare, often jellied gasoline. Napalm is actually the thickener in such liquids, which when mixed with gasoline makes a sticky incendiary gel. Developed by the U.S. in World War II by a team of Harvard chemists led by Louis Fieser, its name is a portmanteau of its original ingredients, coprecipitated aluminum salts of naphthenic and palmitic acids. These were added to the flammable substance to cause it to gel.
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Riverboat deploying napalm
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Napalm bombs explode
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Napalm drill of conscripts
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An Ecuadorian Kfir aircraft dropping napalm
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Napalm bombs explode after being dropped from a Republic of Korea Air Force F-4E Phantom II aircraft during a live-fire exercise.
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Mark 77 bomb loaded on an F/A-18 Hornet.
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Simulated Napalm explosion is set off during a demonstration