Incendiary Grenades
Incendiary means "capable of causing fire". It may also refer to: * Incendiary device, a device designed to cause fires * Incendiary ammunition, a projectile designed to set fire to a target * ''Incendiary'' (novel), a novel by Chris Cleave * ''Incendiary'' (film), a 2008 film based on the Cleave novel * '' Incendiary: The Willingham Case'', a 2011 documentary film about the Cameron Todd Willingham arson murder case * Incendiary (band), a hardcore punk band from Long Island, New York See also *Arson Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property. Although the act of arson typically involves buildings, the term can also refer to the intentional burning of other things, such as motor vehicles, watercr ...

Incendiary Device
Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices, incendiary munitions, or incendiary bombs are weapons designed to start fires. They may destroy structures or sensitive equipment using fire, and sometimes operate as anti-personnel weapon, anti-personnel weaponry. Incendiaries utilize materials such as napalm, thermite, magnesium, magnesium powder, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus munitions, white phosphorus. Though colloquially often called "bombs", they are not explosives but in fact operate to slow the process of chemical reactions and use Combustion, ignition rather than detonation to start or maintain the reaction. Napalm, for example, is petroleum especially thickened with certain chemicals into a gel to slow, but not stop, combustion, releasing energy over a longer time than an explosive device. In the case of napalm, the gel adheres to surfaces and resists suppression. Pre-modern history A range of early thermal weapons were utilized by Ancient history, ancient, Middle ...
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Incendiary Ammunition
Incendiary ammunition is a type of ammunition that contains a chemical that, upon hitting a hard obstacle, has the characteristic of causing fire/setting flammable materials in the vicinity of the impact on fire. World War I The first time incendiary ammunition was widely used was in World War I, more specifically in 1916. At the time, phosphorus was the primary ingredient in the Incendiary device, incendiary charge and ignited upon firing, leaving a trail of blue smoke. These early forms were also known as "smoke tracers" because of this. Though deadly, the effective range of these bullets was only 350 yards (320 metre, m), as the phosphorus charge burned quickly. Incendiary bullets called "Buckingham" ammunition were supplied to early British night fighters for use against military zeppelins threatening the British Isles. The flammable hydrogen gas of the zeppelins made incendiary bullets much more deadly than standard ones which would pass through the outer skin without i ...
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Incendiary (novel)
''Incendiary'' is a novel by British writer Chris Cleave. When it was first published in the summer of 2005, it garnered international headlines for the eerie similarity of its plot to the 7 July 2005 London bombings in England carried out on the same day it was published. It won the 2005 Book-of-the-Month Club First Fiction Award. A 2008 film with the same name was based on it. Narrative The novel is written as an epistolary first-person novel, in which, the main character, a young mother, writes a letter to Osama bin Laden after a London incendiary bombing. Plot summary A young mother's life is blown apart when her husband and four-year-old son are killed during a bombing at a football match. Following this, the young mother falls into a depression. While the young mother tries to battle her depression, she also must fight the guilt of committing adultery the same day of her son's and husband's death. Critical reception The novel received generally positive reviews. ...
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Incendiary (film)
''Incendiary'' is a 2008 British drama film written and directed by Sharon Maguire. Based on the 2005 novel '' Incendiary'' by Chris Cleave, it stars Michelle Williams as a woman who loses her husband and young son in a terrorist attack at a football match. Ewan McGregor and Matthew Macfadyen co-star. ''Incendiary'' premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 20 January 2008. Upon its release in UK theatres on 24 October 2008, it received mostly negative reviews from critics. Plot A young East Ender woman (Michelle Williams) is married to bomb-disposal officer Lenny ( Nicholas Gleaves), they have a four-year-old son (Sidney Johnston). While the young mother is having an affair with a reporter called Jasper (Ewan McGregor), Lenny, their son, and about 1000 others are killed in a terrorist attack carried out by six suicide bombers at a football match. Both Jasper and Lenny's boss, Terrence Butcher (Matthew Macfadyen), who is in charge of the anti-terrorist division, try to comfort ...
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The Willingham Case
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ...
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Incendiary (band)
Incendiary is an American hardcore punk band from Long Island, New York. History Incendiary began in 2008 with a 7-inch EP titled ''Amongst The Filth''. They subsequently released three full-length albums: in 2009, ''Crusade'' on Eternal Hope Records, in 2013, ''Cost of Living'', on Closed Casket Activities and, in 2017, ''Thousand Mile Stare'', on Closed Casket Activities. In 2017, they teamed up with CFO$ to record the theme song for NXT (WWE brand), NXT wrestler Aleister Black. Vocalist Brendan Garrone joined the members of Code Orange (band), Code Orange at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III performing Black's theme song live as he came to the ring. Incendiary does not tour actively but have played on a number of shows and festivals. They played on France's Hellfest in 2022 alongside groups like Metallica, Bring Me the Horizon and Mercyful Fate. They opened up for Backtrack (band), Backtrack at one of their final shows in Amityville New York at the Revolution Bar & Music Hall. Eve ...
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