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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
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: 5 Dec 88 23:39:43 GMT
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In article <2735@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>, doug@primo.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.
> 
> I would think that the initial explosion would ignite the fuel before
> it's had a chance to spread out that fine.

As long as the initiator produces more shock than heat, until enough
air mixes with the fuel, there won't be an explosion.  A lot like
setting up conditions for a grain silo explosion.  (Or disposing of
weevil-infested flour in a burning incinerator.  Don't ask.)