Is orange juice used in napalm?

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 happens if you mix gasoline and frozen orange juice?

Napalm is made when you mix equal parts of gasoline and frozen orange juice. And the results are catastrophically explosive. But that's not the only mixture that can be explosive. Mixing business and religion can be as controversial and explosive as mixing politics and —well— anything.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Is napalm legal in the US?

Legal status

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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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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What did Agent Orange do to humans?

Among the Vietnamese, exposure to Agent Orange is considered to be the cause of an abnormally high incidence of miscarriages, skin diseases, cancers, birth defects, and congenital malformations (often extreme and grotesque) dating from the 1970s.
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Does napalm stop burning?

Conventional napalm burns for 15-30 seconds, whereas napalm B burns for up to 10 minutes. Napalm B provided the United States with an incendiary substance with enhanced stability and controllability and, as such, became the weapon of choice during the Vietnam War.
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Does napalm melt skin?

For such a simple thing to make, napalm had horrific human consequences. A bit of liquid fire, a sort of jellied gasoline, napalm clung to human skin on contact and melted off the flesh.
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Why does napalm burn so hot?

It burns the hottest at ca. 2500°C or around 4500°F producing white-hot molten iron metal. The driving force of the reaction is the formation of the aluminum-oxygen bond which releases tremendous energy. In the Vietnam War, the US used napalm.
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Are shotguns a war crime?

Yes, shotguns are totally legal.

They're useful for close-quarters combat, especially breaching in urban warfare. Interestingly, during the Great War, after Americans began using them in the trenches, Germany did try to have shotguns banned, though not because shotguns caused exorbitant suffering.
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Can napalm be used as fuel?

Napalm is also a common fuel for incendiary devices such as the Molotov cocktail.
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Why are napalm bombs banned?

Due to that stickiness and extreme high burning properties, Napalm has been deemed controversial particularly when used as an anti-personnel weapon.
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How does napalm smell?

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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Are thermite bombs legal?

Incendiary weapons and laws of warfare

prohibits the use of incendiary weapons against civilians (effectively a reaffirmation of the general prohibition on attacks against civilians in Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions)
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