Comment on Anon learns a new spell

• dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Combustion, sure, but not an explosion.

  I hate to do this to you, but that’s kind how explosions work (i.e. combustion).

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  • ccryx@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    More specifically, that’s how cars with a combustion engine work: lots of tiny explosions.

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    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, they’re a combustion event. An actual explosion (detonation, pre ignition) is really bad news for an engine.

      Firearms use a self oxidising propellant, so it would be quite easy to say that just doesn’t work.

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      • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What, pray tell, do you think is in gunpowder? It’s not magic dust that goes bang. It’s a pre-mixed, pre-compressed mixture of fuel and oxidiser. When used in a gun, whether it’s a muzzle-loader or a cartridge, the confined combustion of the mixture generates thermal energy and expanding gases that impart kinetic energy on a moving component (the piston or a projectile). The only difference is that the combustion event in an ICE is subsonic (deflagration) while the combustion in a gun is supersonic (detonation).

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  • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Don’t be coy, you absolutely love doing this.

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nope, there’s a fundamental difference between a fuel/air mixture burning and something like gunpowder, which is a self oxidising propellant. Most explosives are in the latter category.

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Explosions are combustion.

  And really we’re just talking about oxidation. If oxidation works (which it must, because the characters are breathing) then chemically-propelled projectiles must also work.

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Look, we’re talking about a world where people fly around on broomsticks like we ride bicycles.

    Of course you can just declare that firearms don’t work.

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    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean… not if your fantasy world has any internal consistency… and if it doesn’t then it might as well be Cloud Cuckoo Land.

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