napalm

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It's what the US did in Vietnam with B-52s and napalm, and again in Iraq with shock and awe.

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  1. noun An aluminum soap of various fatty acids that when mixed with gasoline makes a firm jelly used in some bombs and in flamethrowers.
  2. noun This jelly.
  3. noun An incendiary mixture of polystyrene, benzene, and gasoline.

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  • The youths had retrieved from the Internet information on how to make napalm, and were badly burned when a mixture being heated on a kitchen stove ignited. —  Report on the Availability of Bombmaking Information
  • Not to mention napalm, herbicides and all kinds of sophisticated land mines. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • In its simplest terms, napalm is a jellified form of petroleum that can be used in aerial bombardments to create fires. —  Latest Articles
  • One day Kim spoke to a group of U.S. veterans and recalled the napalm incident. —  CommonDreams.org Headlines
  • As in Korea, napalm was also used along with other incendiary devices. —  SteveLendmanBlog
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  1. na(phthenate), salt of naphthenic acid (from naphthene) + palm(itate).
 

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