napalm

Definitions of napalm
  1. noun
    gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps; highly incendiary liquid used in fire bombs and flamethrowers
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    type of:
    gas, gasolina
    a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
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