Liquid incendiaries

Incendiary Liquids and Gels. See under Incendiary Warfare and under Flame Thrower Liquids... 

Improvised explosive mixture Self-igniting incendiary Liquid explosive Flash incendiary ANS... 

Ammunition, incendiary liquid or gel, with burster, expelling charge or propelling charge 0247... 

Russkii Koktel (Russian Cocktail). An incendiary liquid used during WWII against tanks, [t consisted of K chlorate 80 Nitrobenzene (or Nitrotoluene, or Nitro-xylene) 20%... 

Cognac bottles fllted with incendiary liquid. 

To use the gunpowder, pile 2 or 3 spoonfuls on top of any solid incendiary material which is to be ignited. For igniting liquids in open containers, wrap 2 or 3 spoonfuls in a piece of paper and suspend it just above the liquid. 

This incendiary is very good for use against all kinds of wooden structures, including heavy beams and timbers. It also works well on paper, rags, straw, excelsior, and other tinder type materials. It will start fires in open containers of flammable liquids, piles of coal, coke, or lumber, and on baled rags and paper. It is not effective against metal. 

Molotov cocktail—A crude incendiary bomb made of a bottle filled with flammable liquid and fitted with a rag wick. 

Fuze and Burster Bomb. A combination of fuze and burster, for use in a bomb, such as a liquid-filled incendiary bomb, which may be filled in the field... 

J. Billing J. W. Fisher, 40, 6818 (1946). Incendiary projectiles are charged with a highly inflammable thickened fuel, prepd by dissolving a quantity of metallic soap of a fatty acid containing 10 or more C atoms per mole, in a liquid hydrocarbon, preferably of the benzene series... 

Wm. F. VanLoenen, USP 2530489 (1950) CA 45, 2670 (1951). It is disclosed that a mixture of Mg, C and MgO obtained by the Hansgirg process (see below) protected by hydrocarbon oils and a metallic carbide, such as CaC2 or a phosphide, form an incendiary composition which ignites in water or similar oxidizing liquid... 

P. Chereau, FrP 1318773 (1963) CA 58, 13702 (1963), claims rocket fuel or incendiary composed of a combustible metal, eg, Al, Mg, or Li or a liquid fuel such as kerosine, in fine grains or droplets encapsulated in situ by formation of a polymer skin. Thus, 0.18 of 2,4-tolylene diisocyanate is dissolved in 41.8g of paraffin oil. A portion (24.5g) of this mixt is added drop by drop to a stirred soln contg 2g of ethylene glycol in 250g water. Discrete spherical particles... 

Molotov Cocktail, called Frangible Incendiary Grenade in Ref 1, p 200. Its body consisted of a Japanese beer bottle into the top of which was tightly fitted an all-way action fuze. The bottle, 11% inches long 2-1/3 inches in diam was filled with ca 12 oz of an inflammable benzene-type liquid (Ref 2, pp 235—36 with Fig 179)... 

Fenian Fire (Feu liquide in Fr). Incendiary compn consisting of a soln of yellow phosphorus in CS.J After evapn of the solv, phosphorus catches fire and ignites the surrounding flammable materials. Darapski proposed charging incendiary projectiles with the soln consisting of yellow phosphorus (3p) and CS2 (1.3p). Inside this soln was placed a leather bag contg petr oil with other combustible materials Ref Daniel (1902), 153... 

According to Col Fisher (Ref 3) incendiary balls were built up around a core such as small iron shot. Customary procedure was first to dip the shot into a vat of liquid sulfur, then wrap the ball in oakum, redip, roll in fine powder, and wrap with wire. This process was repeated until the diameter of the ball corresponded to the caliber of the cannon. 

Because flammable liquid materials ate not convenient to handle, attempts were made to convert them into a solid state. During WWI solid oils had already been prepd by treating the petroleum distillates with sodium stearate or other materials, but they were used only in some incendiary bombs, shells, Li yen s drams and trench stoves, and not in flame throwers... 

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