"Chris" wrote in message
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"williamhenry" wrote in message
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what did they use in the army to fuel flamethrowers ?


Pretty sure they used just compressed air and regular gasoline. For
something sticky use napalm. Nothing more than gasoline and Styrofoam
mixed together.

Fooey! Napalm is not and never has been gasoline and styrofoam! That crap
comes from "The Anarchist's Cookbook" and other such stupid pre-pubescent
fire-play booklets.

Napalm originally got its name from Na(ptha) and (sodium)Palm(itate). In
other words, naptha thickened with palm-oil soap. Gasoline and soap work
equally well, but the vapor pressure of gasoline is too great to be safe or
long-lived in storage.

Note, I said SOAP, not detergent. An early "terrorists" version of napalm
was gasoline thickened with Ivory Flakes laundry soap.

LLoyd