| From: | "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Caseless Amme |
| Date: | Wed, 1 Dec 1993 12:56:52 -0600 |
> WRONG!!! Completely incorrect on a number of counts.
Whouldn't be the first time.
> To detonate plastique (C4) you need two things: heat and pressure. If you
> have either, but not both, it will not detonate. Plastique burns nicely.
> Step on it while burning and prepare to have your foot mangled. Electricity
> does not detonate C4. An electronic detonator /will/ detonate C4.
Uh, that does not jibe with my own personal expieriences. In chemistry
back in the mid-to-late-80's, we did a unit on combustives. We were able
to mix a comcoction that wouldn't do nothing no matter what you did to
it. Burn it, hammer it, hammer it while burning it, roll it into balls
and whip them at people, etc.
But when we plugged two wires into this mass of silly putty, it would
burst into flame, comsuming itself in about 1/4th of a second (for a
marble-sized portion).
> Furthermore, gunpowder doesn't explode--if it did then every firearm in the
> would would be a one-shot, no range grenade. It burns very quickly, but not
> fast enough to be considered an explosion.
Yes, I know that gunpowder doesn't explode. I was talking about a
comcoction that would burn quickly, but only be ignighted by an
electrical current (see above). That's its only relation to plastique.
> And lastly, when C4 /does/ detonate, it shakes, unlike TNT which gives you
> nice big flaming explosions. It is rather unspectacular (so when you see
> tremendous billowing clouds of flame in a movie you can laugh and say
> "that's /not/ C4!).
Shakes? Didn't know that, can you explain?
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