[ noun ] gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps; highly incendiary liquid used in fire bombs and flamethrowers <noun.substance>
napalm \napalm\ (n[=a]"p[aum]m), n. A highly incediary liquid consisting of gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps, used as a weapon of war in fire bombs and flame throwers. [WordNet 1.5]
A woman, whose pain from napalm bomb burns became a lasting image of the Vietnam War, has indefinitely postponed a trip to the United States due to health reasons.
Videotape from hospitals in Iran, and the testimony of U.S. Army personnel at the Iraq-Kuwait border, reveal that many refugees have napalm burns.
A defunct storage company and its former president have been charged with conspiracy to illegally dispose of hazardous wastes, including surplus napalm bombs, near people's homes, officials said today.
He has recently been burned, Mr. Sawyer reveals, by Saddam Hussein's napalm.
Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti play anti-war activists who sabatoged a napalm plant in 1970 and are forced to live underground with their two children.