单词 | incendijel |
释义 | incendijeln. Originally U.S. An inflammable jelly used in incendiary weapons, composed of polystyrene, petrol, and benzene. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > incendiary agent napalm1942 napalm gel1946 incendijel1966 napalm jelly1966 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > inflammable jelly incendijel1966 1966 Air Force/Space Digest (U.S.) Mar. 45/2 Nearly 700 day and night sorties were flown by B-57, A-1E, F-100, and F-8 aircraft, which dropped more than 450,000 pounds of incendijel. 1966 New Statesman 8 Apr. 496/1 The new jelly—or what US pilots refer to as ‘incendijel’—is replacing the old soap-jelled gasoline napalm as used in Korea. 1967 (title) Modification kit for the MXY 377/E 32 incendijel mixing and transfer unit (U.S. Air Force Armament Lab.) (AD 830 504). 1967 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Apr. 5/1 The Americans do not dissemble what they are up to. They do not seem to feel the need, except through verbiage: e.g., napalm has become ‘Incinder-jell’. 1968 Listener 22 Feb. 244/2 The issues and living horror of the war disappear in a deadened, bureaucratic language—‘incinderjell’, ‘the other side’, ‘body counts’. 1968 V. W. Sidel in S. Rose Chem. & Biol. Warfare iii. 44 The name napalm has been retained as a generic one for weapons of this type. Recently the term has also been applied to a gel consisting of petrol, benzene, and polystyrene which is also called ‘incenderjell’ or Napalm-B. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1966 |
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