Napalm is a mixture of Naphthenic Acid and Palmitic Acid. The first can be found as a byproduct of crude oil while the latter can be found either in coconut oil or palm oil. The mixing of these two acids produces an aluminum soap which when mixed with flammable fuels, such as gasoline, produces a brown sticky substance. The thickness of this substance is easily controllable by modifying the ratio levels of either part.
Napalm has a modern form as well which uses the substances gasoline, benzene and Polystyrene. Though this newer mixture is harder to set alight it has a much greater duration of ignition. Where the first napalm only burned for a maximum of half a minute, this new Napalm has an astonishing ‘burn time’ ten whole minutes.
Used the greatest amount during Americas retaliation to the Pearl Harbor bombings, Napalm is a deadly substance made from a combination of acids. It is actually a thickening gel that is added to flammable fuels such as gasoline so that they may be used for military purposes. When the Japanese launched a pre-emptive strike on the Pearl Harbor, Napalm was still a relatively new discovery for the American military. A large quantity of Napalm bombs were dropped on the villages of Japan in which all the houses were made of wood. The Napalm bomb proved to be a devastating weapon which would remain alight setting fire to anything that it stuck to.
The effects of napalm bombs are highly dangerous and can produce self perpetuating winds of speeds up to seventy miles an hour while creating an atmosphere which has a twenty percent carbon monoxide ratio.
Napalm Bomb
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