Word: thermite
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Demonstrating the "Thermit" method of producing steel, Rochow ordered the first four rows to vacate their seats--then ignited a cone-shaped crucible filled with powdered aluminum and iron oxide...
...half-inch steel plate 50 feet under water at a rate of 52 inches a minute. Developed by the Navy and the Metal and Thermit Corp., it is an under water adaptation of a device known as the "arc-oxygen electrode." Underwater, it is a vast improvement on the oxyacetylene torch, which works only down to 15 feet...
...about 2,000,000 tons of tin cans discarded annually in the U.S., of which an estimated 700,000 tons might be collected, shipped and processed economically. Today, the toughest problem facing WPB planners is getting greater detinning plant capacity. Of the seven large plants now in operation, Metal & Thermit Corp. (East Chicago, Ind.; South San Francisco; Carteret, N.J.) and Vulcan Detinning Co. (Neville Island, Pa.; Sewaren, N.J.) do about 85% of the business. New plants are being built by the Defense Plant Corporation at Houston, Dallas, Kansas City...
...city's water supply, they hit the new Olympic Stadium. They killed scores of women & children, put out the city's lights, pocked the airport and factory section, wrecked the new Technical Institute, but in two days of bombing did not succeed in impairing communications. Thermit incendiary bombs* set the west end of Helsinki ablaze. Other prime targets were the ports of Viipuri, Kotka, Hangö, Turku and Vaasa, the big power plant at Imatra, gas mask factory at Lahti. After unloading their bombs, the planes swooped to machine-gun their objectives. Finnish anti-aircraft guns and fighting...
Incendiaries were the earliest chemicals used in war. The first flame projector (glowing coals, sulphur and pitch) got into action at Delium in 424 B. c. Thermit, a mixture of iron oxide and powdered aluminum which burns at 3,000° C., was the chief World War incendiary. It was used in conjunction with oil to spread fires which the thermit started. Since there is not much of importance to burn on a battlefield, Author Prentiss believes the chief future use of thermit and other incendiaries will be against cities...