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dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 week agoCombustion, sure, but not an explosion.
I hate to do this to you, but that’s kind how explosions work (i.e. combustion).
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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.
ccryx@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
More specifically, that’s how cars with a combustion engine work: lots of tiny explosions.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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.
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 week 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).
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
So what you’re saying is there’s a fundamental difference between the two?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 week ago
@Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works is correct.
I should’ve done my homework before going all “well akshullay 🤓” on them (sorry!).
The only similarities between the two is that they both are chemical reactions that produce a rapid release of energy. But past that, they are much different in how they get to that point.