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From: ems@Apple.COM (Mike Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,sci.space
Subject: Re: USSR and the Moon [was "Beyond the Energia crisis"]
Keywords: Soviet/American shuttle comparison
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Date: 6 Dec 88 00:44:33 GMT
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In article <2735@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> doug@loihi.hig.hawaii.edu (Doug Myhre) writes:
>In article <79302@sun.uucp>, fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
>>Have you ever heard about a fuel/air bomb?  Small charge speads out
>>an aerosol of some liquid fuel, then an igniter sets off the cloud.
>>Extremely potent for a given weight of bomb.
>>
>>If the rocket first suffered a small explosion that ruptured its tanks,
>>then the resulting fuel/oxidizer cloud gets ignited...it might have
>>the described effect.
>
>I would think that the initial explosion would ignite the fuel before
>it's had a chance to spread out that fine.

Take a 5 lb bag of flour (Bleached white or Whole Wheat...)  Put it on
top of a tuna fish can full of explosive.  Place on floor of 12ft square
shed.  Light fuse and run away.  The flour is dusbursed into the air,
then the dust/air mix explodes violently.  The fuel doesn't burn well
until it is disbursed into the oxidizer, then it detonates.