abstract:Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices or incendiary bombs are weapons originally designed to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using fire (and sometimes used as anti-personnel weaponry), that use materials such as napalm, thermite, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus. Though colloquially often known as bombs, they are not explosives but in fact are designed to slow the process of chemical reactions and use ignition rather than detonation to start and or maintain the reaction.
Kennedy library, but police said later it was a fire that may have been caused by an incendiarydevice, and it was not clear whether it was related to the bombings.