BIGGEST EXPLOSIONS
Detonation vs. Deflagration. ** LINKS ** Music by Jake Chudnow: http://www.myspace.com/jakechudnow Shockwave in slo mo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjC4SvZIARY How a bullet works:...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here, and today I'm in my apartment. But when I was in Kansas with family my dad lit off what is known as a quarter stick. But don't worry, absolutely no children were around. Okay, look, the point is that today we're going to talk about explosives. Let's begin way down the scale with black powder, or smokeless powder which many modern rounds use. Now, usually smokeless powder doesn't even detonate. Instead, it deflagrates. Technically, an explosion is only a detonation when the material or the gases expelled travel faster than the speed of sound. If the explosion is subsonic, you're only dealing with a deflagration. Now, we want a bullet's propellant to deflagrate, not detonate, because we want it to have enough ...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here, and today I'm in my apartment. But when I was in Kansas with family my dad lit off what is known as a quarter stick. But don't worry, absolutely no children were around. Okay, look, the point is that today we're going to talk about explosives. Let's begin way down the scale with black powder, or smokeless powder which many modern rounds use. Now, usually smokeless powder doesn't even detonate. Instead, it deflagrates. Technically, an explosion is only a detonation when the material or the gases expelled travel faster than the speed of sound. If the explosion is subsonic, you're only dealing with a deflagration. Now, we want a bullet's propellant to deflagrate, not detonate, because we want it to have enough ...
