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Fallen angels Power point on Napalm By Deandre Timbers

Fallen Angels. Fallen angels Power point on Napalm By Deandre Timbers. What is Napalm?.

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Fallen angels Power point on Napalm By Deandre Timbers

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  1. Fallen Angels Fallen angels Power point on Napalm By Deandre Timbers

  2. What is Napalm? • A highly flammable, viscous substance, designed to stick to the body while burning, used in warfare to cause widespread death and destruction, especially in wooded areas; To spray or attack an area using such substance. • Napalm is a powdered aluminum soap or similar compound used to gelatinize oil or gasoline for use in napalm bombs or flame throwers, or the resultant gelatinized substance. • Jelly-like gasoline enclosed in bombs dropped by an airplane. It sticks to whatever it lands on and burns for a long time.

  3. Naplam At War!! • During the Korean War, the US dropped approximately 250,000 pounds of napalm per day. The napalm-filled bombs were initially made in Japan. They were made of plastic, cost gallons. forty dollars each, and held 100

  4. Who was napalm used by? • Frequently, when American military forces were becoming over-run in Vietnam, air strikes were called-in to help stabilize an escalating situation with Napalm, as well as other airborne explosives.

  5. Effects of napalm • The asphyxiating effect of napalm is due to the incomplete combustion of the compound, which produces carbon monoxide. This phenomenon has been reported in areas ravaged by the fire storms caused by bombardment of cities with conventional bombs during the Second World War”.

  6. When was naplm first developed? • Napalm was first developed in 1942 by Harvard researchers cooperating with the U.S. army and used in bombs and flame throwers by mixing a powdered aluminum soap of naphthalene withhence napalm. 

  7. Effects on people • A large amount of carbon monoxide is produced once a napalm bomb is set off.  It makes it very hard for people to breath which causes them to pass out and burn.  Carbon monoxide poisoning itself can be serious.  Disturbances of the nervous system, insomnia, weakness and low temperature are common symptoms.

  8. What is a napalm bomb? • Napalm is an explosive material made with Petroleum Jelly. In the Vietnam War it was used in Incendiary Bombs. These are bombs that explode and burn. It could be wiped off, so an adhesive glue was added to make it stick to the skin. But it could be doused out with water, so magnesium was added to make it burn in water. People still survived, so lead was added to make napalm bombs poisonous.

  9. What is Napalm used for? • Napalm is and has been used as an incendiary fire bomb component in many wars, namely World War 2.

  10. What can put out a napalm fire? • One of the ways to put out a Napalm fire is to deprive it of oxygen. It will have nothing to feed on.

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