Is orange juice in napalm?

'2 So what is napalm and how is it really made? Napalm is a general name for a thick oil or jelly mixed with fuel such as gasoline (petrol). In Durden's 'recipe', the gasoline fuel is mixed with orange juice concentrate that provides the sticky oil.
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What are the ingredients in napalm?

Many variations of the chemicals used in napalm exist. The most common current composition includes aluminum salts, polystyrene, and benzene. Detonation then occurs by various explosive compounds that ignite phosphorous, which burns at a temperature adequate to ignite the fuel mixture.
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Is Fight Club napalm real?

No because orange juice is mostly water. Never make napalm anywhere. It's too dangerous.
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What is a nape bomb?

noun. chemistry. a bomb made from a thick and highly incendiary liquid, usually consisting of petrol gelled with aluminium soaps, used in firebombs, flame-throwers, etc.
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What happens if you mix Styrofoam and gasoline?

Will gasoline dissolve Styrofoam? Yes. The resulting, sticky and gelatinous material, is effectively home made “napalm”. It can be be made by dissolving pieces of Styrofoam in gasoline or diesel fuel to form a flammable jelly-like substance.
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Is napalm an orange agent?

Agent Orange, which was used during the Vietnam War to clear dense vegetation, is a deadly herbicide with long-lasting effects. Napalm, a gel-like fuel mixture that burns slowly and more accurately than gasoline, was used in bombs.
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What is the formula for napalm?

It is a mixture of 46 parts polystyrene (a polymer of styrene C6H6CH2=CH2, a short chain of the polymer is illustrated below), 33 parts gasoline and 21 parts benzene.
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What is mixed with napalm?

Napalm is an incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a volatile petrochemical (usually gasoline (petrol) or diesel fuel). 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.
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Is napalm just Styrofoam and gas?

During the Vietnam war, a new napalm was developed called 'Napalm-B' which used polystyrene, gasoline (petrol) and benzene (already in gasoline). The new napalm was a lot more effective than the old type and the polystyrene used to thicken the gasoline made the substance even more sticky and harder to put out.
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Why is napalm no longer used?

A 1980 UN convention banned the use against civilian targets of napalm, a terrifying mixture of jet fuel and polystyrene that sticks to skin as it burns. The US, which did not sign the treaty, is one of the few countries that makes use of the weapon.
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Can napalm burn underwater?

Versions of napalm B containing white phosphorus will even burn underwater (if there is trapped oxygen in folds of cloth, for example) so even jumping into rivers and lakes won't help those unfortunate souls attacked with this vile weapon.
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Is napalm just gasoline?

Napalm, invented by Fieser in 1942, is an incendiary substance made by the simple procedure of adding a "gelling" powder, composed of naphthalene and palmitate (hence "napalm"), to gasoline in varying concentrations to form a sticky, combustible substance.
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Can you touch napalm?

Due to its sticky nature, it can stick to one's skin even after ignition. That is why it produces awful burns on the human body. Even brief contact with napalm can cause second-degree burns, leading to keloids.
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Does napalm burn skin?

Napalm is a devilish brew of jellied gasoline that sticks to human skin and burns all the way to the bone. It was created in a lab across the river on the campus of Harvard University, at the height of the Second World War.
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Was Agent Orange worse than napalm?

Unlike the effects of another chemical weapon used in Vietnam – namely napalm, which caused painful death by burns or asphyxiation – Agent Orange exposure did not affect its victims immediately.
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Is Agent Orange illegal in war?

He is among approximately three million victims poisoned by Agent Orange and other similar chemicals during the American War in Vietnam. Chemical warfare is illegal according to both the 1925 Geneva Protocols and other international laws.
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Is Agent Orange still in Vietnam?

After its use in the 1960s, Agent Orange was banned by the U.S. in 1971 and remaining stocks were taken from Vietnam and the U.S. to Johnston Atoll, a U.S. controlled island about 700 miles SE of Hawaii, where it was destroyed in 1978. There is no 'Agent Orange' in Vietnam or anywhere else today.
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Is making napalm a war crime?

Napalm is legal to use on the battlefield under international law. Its use against "concentrations of civilians" is a war crime.
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Does napalm burn hotter?

Napalms are stickier, and burn hotter, than unadulterated hydrocarbons. As the Oxford English Dictionary writes, it is "A thixotropic gel consisting of petrol and this thickening agent (or some similar agent), used in flame-throwers and incendiary bombs; jellied petrol."
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Does napalm burn or explode?

A later type of napalm, napalm-B, also called "super napalm", has low-octane gasoline, benzene and polystyrene in it. It was used in the Vietnam War. Napalm B burns for up to 10 minutes with fewer fireballs. This is different conventional napalm, which burns for only 15–30 seconds.
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Why put Styrofoam in Molotov?

The defense ministry distributed a recipe for producing Molotov cocktails to civilians through Ukrainian television, which included the use of styrofoam as a thickening agent to aid in helping the burning liquid stick to vehicles or other targets.
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What does napalm smell like?

It smells like … victory.” I asked a Vietnam vet if he could recall what napalm actually smelled like. He responded instantly, “Gasoline and laundry detergent.. It smells like what it is.
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Can you own napalm in the US?

Prosecutors say he further wrote: “It is not illegal to make napalm in your garage, it is just illegal to use it against civilians under international law. Using [napalm] on enemy troops in wartime is perfectly okay.”
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Does napalm burn to the bone?

First, second and third-degree burns involve heat damage to the skin only. But now, napalm causes burns even more severe than that: a fourth-degree burn entails damage to the skin and muscle, and fifth-degree burns is a napalm wound penetrating both skin and muscle and affecting the bone.
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How hot is liquid napalm?

It was developed by U.S. scientists during World War II. Napalm is also employed in a pyrotechnic gel containing gasoline and less-volatile petroleum oil, powdered magnesium, and sodium nitrate; this composition burns at a temperature of about 1,000° C (1,800° F), compared to 675° C (1,250° F) for thickened gasoline.
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