$30.00 SCIENTIFIC PR OF IMPROVISE WARFARE AND HOME DEFENSE Volume 4 Incendiaries: The science of using fire as a weapon While Nero fiddled, the real history makers were burning Rome to the ground SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE PRESS © 1997 BY TIMOTHY W TOBIASON For Academic Purposes OnlyScientific Principles of Improvised Warfare and Home Defense Copyright 1996 ISBN # by Scientific and Technical Intelligence Press and Timothy W. Tobiason Printed in the United States of America Pubiished by Scientific and Technical Intelligence Press P.O. Box 59 Silver Creek Nebraska 68663 All rights reserved. Except for use in a review, no portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the publisher. This book is intended for academic use only. Niether the publisher or the author assumes any responsibility for the use or misuse of information contained in this book.Incendiarics, The Science of Using Fire as a Weapon Table of Contents Chapter 1: The Science of Combustion Combustion 1-1 Oxidation 1-1 Flammable substances 1-2 List of the Elements 1-3 Table of the Elements 14 Solids 1-5 Liquids 1-8 Gases 1-9 Principles & Behavior of fire 1-3 Fire phases 1-ti Weather 1-13 Chapter 2 Primary Incendiary Chemicals Metallic fuels and thermites 2-2 Metal fuels and oxides 24 Thermates 2-6 Sparking & Pyrophoric Fragmenting 2-6 Barium 2-7 Boron 2-8 Cadmium 2-8 Calcium 2-8 Carbon Disulfide 2-9 Cerium 2-9 Cesium 2-9 Copper & Copper Phosphide 2-9 Diisopropyl peroxydicarbonate 2-10 Dimethyl Cadmium 2-10 Erbium 2-10 Europium 2-10 Ferric Nitrate 2-10 Fluorine 2-10 Furfuy! Alcohol 2-11 Lanthanum 2-11 Lithium 2-11 Magnesium 2-1] Misch Metal 2-11 Molybdenum 2-12 Nak Alloy 2-12 Nickel 2-12 Nitrogen Trichloride 2-12 Nitryl Fluoride 2-12 TC-1