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Paul Young
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Your online research is correct. Napalm relies on oxygen in the atmosphere in order to burn, so it produces just an ordinary flame.

Ordinary flames reach equilibrium at less than few thousand degrees as radiation and convection carry away the limited energy output available from oxygen travelling towards the fuel.

Note that the energy comes from the breaking of the oxygen double bond. When the fuel is a hydrocarbon, as it is with napalm, the bonding energies of the hydrogen and carbon atoms are about the same as before combustion.

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