What is a Incendiary Device????

[brettdale]

Police said it wasnt a bomb at the goodwill store and is not related to the other
bombings, and it was a incendiary device instead.

What is a incendiary device?

[Girard442]

1. Makes a fire.

[brettdale]

6. so this was an accident???

What the heck was a incendiary device doing at a goodwill store?

How can they be sure its not related to the bomber?

[Orange Free State]

15. Maybe the bomber didnt need it any more so....

....he gave it to Goodwill for the tax deduction? Seriously, they may have him. He may have blown himself up. Placing a bomb is a dicey thing and at some point they eff up and blow themselves up. Happened to the bomber in The Mormon Murders book. I hope this one is his last. The tripwire thing bothered me more than anything, very indiscriminate.

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. It Is A Bomb That Is Meant To Cause Fire Rather Than An Explosion.

A molotov cocktail is an incendiary device.

[RobinA]

32. So What's A Bomb?

I guess we can say that all bombs are incendiary devices, but not all incendiary devices are bombs>

[TheDebbieDee]

3. Simple fireworks are incendiary devices and not bombs...

[LunaSea]

4. One that starts a fire

adjective
1.
used or adapted for setting property on fire:
incendiary bombs.
2.
of or relating to the criminal setting on fire of property.
3.
tending to arouse strife, sedition, etc.; inflammatory:
incendiary speeches.
4.
tending to inflame the senses:
an incendiary extravaganza of music and dance.

[Lithos]

5. Designed to cause fires

As opposed to others including fragmentation (designed to create shrapnel - aka, hand grenade, claymore), demolition (shockwaves), smoke (self-evident), and general purpose.

L-

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Still Can Pop, But...

...any compression wave is far below sonic speed.
Thermite weapons pop in order to spray the thermite, and something like napalm devices have a small, low velocity detonation to trigger the fire.
So, while they're intended to do damage with fee, not the blast, as you said, being close to one going off could kill just from the trigger. Probably not a thermite device, but certainly a liquid flammable device could kill just from the pressure wave.

[fleabiscuit]

7. Trump. nt

[Grassy Knoll]

8. Lol....

[ProudLib72]

11. Double LOL

[NCTraveler]

12. Solid. Nt

[whathehell]

9. Not to nitpick, but

it is "an" incendiary device, not "a" incredible device. If you say it out loud, you'll hear how much smoother it sounds.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. Your post should get some fires started around here.

Its an highly incendiary post.

[whathehell]

24. Only if

grammer is now a " hot topic".

[PCIntern]

25. My grammar was not a hot topic

She was a very sweet lady

[whathehell]

34. Lol

[PJMcK]

30. You're eliding the point (n/t)

[whathehell]

33. Don't you mean

"eluding"?

[octoberlib]

10. Definition

Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices or incendiary bombs are weapons designed to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using fire (and sometimes used as anti-personnel weaponry), that use materials such as napalm, thermite, magnesium powder, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incendiary_device

[sl8]

14. I don't respond to incendiary posts. n/t

[H2O Man]

16. A copy cat

[krispos42]

17. A bomb-like device designed to spread fire

Imagine a hand grenade dropped in a drum of gasoline. The small explosion of the grenade would rupture the drum, ignite the gasoline, and splash it all around the area. Nearly all the damage would be from the burning gasoline being splashed around, and not from the relatively modest grenade explosion and fragmentation.

You might have seen an action movie where the hero tapes a burning road flare to a jerry can of gasoline and throws it out of a moving vehicle. Same idea.

[backtoblue]

18. I had to ask too...

[LeftInTX]

19. Goodwill drop offs sometimes attract trouble...

[LeftInTX]

20. It was an "artillery simulator"

Artillery simulators are devices sometimes used in military training.

Reyes says such military items are sometimes mistakenly donated to Goodwill rather than being properly disposed of.

To me it looks like a grenade of some sort. But I can see if it was some military thing that got dropped off Goodwill.

A few years ago, someone dropped off a skull at an Austin Goodwill. The skull was 2 years old, so it was probably wasn't a "medical skull". The case was never solved.

[LeftInTX]

21. Adding:

Our Goodwill drop off has CCTV.

I feel bad for the employees who have to wade through hazardous materials. Hopefully they caught the culprit on tape and spoke to him.

[TexasTowelie]

29. The worst part is that the employees that work there

probably aren't even making minimum wage. The story from last year about the Goodwill store in Omaha and the exorbitant salary that the president made has soured my generosity to Goodwill.

[LeftInTX]

31. Thanks for the update

I interact with employees at the drop-off and I certainly hope they are making at least minimum wage. They are hard workers. They lift heavy items out of my car etc.

[frogmarch]

22. Maybe a lithium-ion battery. nt

[DFW]

26. From the French word "incendie"

It means "fire."

[lapfog_1]

27. Incendiary Device

defn - see DJT tweets...

[FSogol]

28. Suspect Device