incendiary bomb
incendiary bomb Bomb designed to burn, rather than destroy by explosion, its target. Incendiary bombs were first used in World War I. In World War II they had phosphorus or thermite as the charge. They were also widely used by the USA in the Vietnam War, in the form of napalm.
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