To: BenLurkin
Get it hot enough and the vapor pressure will rupture the container. That can take off spectacularly, even large cylindrical tanks will go like a rocket.
83 posted on
08/12/2015 12:13:20 PM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe; BenLurkin
And now the same BBC link says a container of explosives.
86 posted on
08/12/2015 12:15:33 PM PDT by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Smokin' Joe
Twitter:
MSimonTV: Our reporter on scene says buildings are collapsed as far as 10km away from explosion site in #Tianjin.
87 posted on
08/12/2015 12:16:34 PM PDT by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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