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napalm

gelling agent for use in incendiary devices
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Summary

napalm ranks in the top 0.41% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,002 views/month, #319 of 77,819).[1]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: Louis Fieser[2]
  • Subclass of: mixture[3], fuel[4]
  • Has use: incendiary weapon[5]
  • Commons category: Napalm[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Napalm[7]
  • Commons gallery: Napalm[8]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 8[9]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[10]

Why It Matters

napalm has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] napalm is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → napalm
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: napalm, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289955629|napalm (#289955629)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'mat"
  2. 11w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Objects/Napalm
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Objects/Napalm, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  3. 20w ago · Tholzheim · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Factgrid item id → Q1783927
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Factgrid item id: Q1783927, adds FactGrid ID"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
    Discoverer or inventor → Louis Fieser
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2248378
    Subclass of → —
    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007558118805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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