NAPALM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps; highly incendiary liquid used in fire bombs and flamethrowers

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("napalm" is a kind of...):

gas; gasolene; gasoline; petrol (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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