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Re: Explosion Question
Posted by: Gerald Hurst (IP Logged)
Date: October 31, 2006 12:28PM

For information on gaseous explosives you need to turn to military sources rather than the IME. There isn't much of a commercial market for Fuel/air explosives.

The terms "high order" and "low order" have been in use for a lot longer than 50 years among untutored blasters. "Low order" has been used to describe:

Too little explosive

Incomplete detonation

Lack of damage to adjacent hard targets

Deflagration

LVD

Any weak explosion

The alleged effects of a low explosive

The two terms have generated a lot of confusion over the years because of the inevitable tendency to try to correlate them with "low explosive" and "High explosive." The same thing will happen in FI.

Adopting murky idioms from the fringes of other sciences and sanctifying them by enshrinement in 921 is not a good idea.

It is also not a good idea to cite your own writings as learned sources. The reasoning gets a bit circular when you do so.

Again, I suggest that in some future edition of 921, you ditch the imported slang terms.



Subject Views Written By Posted
  Explosion Question 1749 fyrecop 10/30/2006 11:42AM
  Re: Explosion Question 1152 PMK140 10/30/2006 12:11PM
  Re: Explosion Question 1062 Gerald Hurst 10/30/2006 04:23PM
  Re: Explosion Question 1045 PMK140 10/30/2006 07:41PM
  Re: Explosion Question 1095 Gerald Hurst 10/31/2006 02:29AM
  Re: Explosion Question 1028 PMK140 10/31/2006 07:34AM
  Re: Explosion Question 980 Gerald Hurst 10/31/2006 12:28PM
  Re: Explosion Question 1012 PMK140 10/31/2006 01:55PM
  Re: Explosion Question 990 Ron Hopkins 11/01/2006 08:03AM
  Re: Explosion Question P.S. To Dr. Hurst 999 PMK140 10/31/2006 07:47AM
  Re: Explosion Question P.S. To Dr. Hurst 1011 Gerald Hurst 10/31/2006 11:34AM
  Re: Explosion Question P.S. To Dr. Hurst 968 PMK140 10/31/2006 12:14PM
  Re: Explosion Question P.S. To Dr. Hurst 985 MIJ 10/31/2006 02:34PM
  Re: Explosion Question 1009 dcarpenter 10/31/2006 08:47AM
  Re: Explosion Question 1066 SJAvato 10/30/2006 12:52PM
  Re: Explosion Question 1060 firecop5002 10/31/2006 05:09AM
  Re: Explosion Question 1023 John J. Lentini, CFEI 10/31/2006 10:03AM
  Re: Explosion Question 988 PMK140 10/31/2006 10:30AM
  Re: Explosion Question 1005 John Gow RFP 10/31/2006 03:09PM
  Re: Explosion Question 909 fyrecop 10/31/2006 08:37PM
  Re: Explosion Question 978 Gerald Hurst 11/01/2006 10:23AM
  Re: Explosion Question 893 PMK140 11/01/2006 02:43PM
  Re: Explosion Question 904 firetwin2 11/01/2006 08:35PM


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