Help ID unknown WW1 German Air dropped(?) Signal Device(?)

[Buster]

Can anyone ID and and explain the use of the item shown in the pictures below please? For scale the Cartridge is a 12 Bore and is HS ' * 12 * 12 '







Thanks in advance.

 

[JOHN LANDON]

Can anyone ID and and explain the use of the item shown in the pictures below please? For scale the Cartridge is a 12 Bore and is HS ' * 12 * 12 '



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Thanks in advance.

British Bomb Incendiary ,Baby ,6 1/2 oz.

 

[Buster]

Brilliant John, thank you very much.

 

[Alan1]

Here is one in my own collection.
When I first saw it, it was complete with the finned cap. Somehow that had been lost when next I saw it. To my utter fury!
Anyway, I managed to save what was left. They are not common.
Alan1.

 

[LEAFLET]

Hello Buster, Maybe this might help you.
LEAFLET

 

[Buster]

Hello Buster, Maybe this might help you.
LEAFLET

Thanks Leaflet, very useful I will get a copy for my file.

 

[Speedy]

What is "Cendite"? Assumed a kind of incendiary mixture, but what type of?

 

[LEAFLET]

What is "Cendite"? Assumed a kind of incendiary mixture, but what type of?

Like you said, it's a kind of Incendiary Mixture, but I can't find wich one

 

[Dreamk]

"A standard incendiary mixture known as 'Cendite', containing aluminium, barium nitrate and "hammer scale" (Po3 O4). This mixture when compressed is one of the more difficult compositions to ignite."

 

[no3nh4]

Hello everyone,

This incendiary bomb was also used in Spain in the Moroccan campaigns and in the Spanish Civil War. Diagrams attached.
The one used in Spain had thermite as an incendiary charge.
Greeting

 

[Dreamk]

The "B-3 incendaria", more often called "Nobel baby", had been in use in Spain since 1925, locally produced in the suburbs of Madrid by the Union Espanola de Explosivos
Length 153mm Diameter 25mm Weight 134g

 

[Speedy]

"A standard incendiary mixture known as 'Cendite', containing aluminium, barium nitrate and "hammer scale" (Po3 O4). This mixture when compressed is one of the more difficult compositions to ignite."

Probably you mean Fe3O4 Po is polonium, very rare element, strong radioactive (alpha emitter).

 

[Dreamk]

I copied the citation as is - Po is in fact P (Phosphorus) in correct modern international chemical classigfication.
P3O4 is Phosphorus (III) tetroxide which is more widely known today as a soil contaminant due to its use to enhance germination and soil fertility.