Vapor Phase Explosions: Elementary Detonations?
- 13 April 1979
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 204 (4389) , 168-169
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.204.4389.168
Abstract
Although liquid-vapor explosions are widely observed, there is no established explanation for their initiation and propagation. Thermodynamics admits the possibility that superheated liquids can support detonations analogous to those that occur in chemical explosives. For liquid methane superheated 50 K above its boiling point at 1 atmosphere, the energy of explosion is 2 to 3 percent of that of TNT.Keywords
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