Napalm
id:
napalm-182-8327580
title:
Napalm
text:
Napalm is an incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a volatile petrochemical. The name is a portmanteau of two of the constituents of the original thickening and gelling agents: coprecipitated aluminium salts of naphthenic acid and palmitic acid. A team led by chemist Louis Fieser originally developed napalm for the US Chemical Warfare Service in 1942 in a secret laboratory at Harvard University. Of immediate first interest was its viability as an incendiary device to be used in fire bombing
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Gelled incendiary mixture
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm
date created:
2001-11-16T21:06:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T09:49:37Z
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13
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