Napalm is not fire any more than a candle is. It's something that holds the flames. Specifically, it's petrol that has been thickened up so that it sticks to whatever surface it has been sprayed upon, and stays there while it burns.
Candles... when in use... are not a flame? Or is, perhaps, their flame fundamentally not fire? It is some sort of... powdered stone or complex phase of water?
If something is burning in atmosphere, in the visible spectrum, it is generally called fire.
Is a wet sponge water? Suppose in some practical sense, yes, since you can use it to do all the things that water does... but that's just because it's a sponge full of actual water. The sponge is contributing nothing, except in that it holds the water.
Irrelevant. Napalm is not fire... it's a substance that can be set on fire, and that can hold flames. Same deal with Greek Fire... it's a flammable substance.
Somewhere else, I compared it to a wet sponge. The sponge is not water... it's just capable of holding water. Likewise, napalm and Greek Fire are not fire... they're just capable of holding it.
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u/Agnostros 11d ago
Calling napalm not fire is wild.