Thanks for the info and I'll try to educate myself. Meanwhile, does this
mean that a 1/4" tube full of liquid nitrous could propagate a detonation
wave due to dissociation (presumably the only energy source that could
cause a detonation wave)? This seems to contradict my previous
understanding that it is very difficult to have a dissociation reaction in
liquid nitrous. Gaseous nitrous is the real boogey-man here. Am I up in the
night?
Paul M
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:08 AM, George Herbert <george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
You really want Paul Coopers grad level textbook "Explosives Engineering".
George William Herbert
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On Dec 4, 2015, at 9:54 AM, Ed LeBouthillier <codemonky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
that it is about 1/4" for liquid nitrous oxide.
Paul Mueller said
Yeah, I'm not familiar with the "critical diameter" and what it means
down a tube.
The critical diameter is the diameter at which a detonation can proceed
Smaller than that, the detonation should not propagate, large than that,it should.
https://books.google.com/books?id=5P-mCAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA285&ots=42Lfa7DirE&dq=critical%20diameter%20detonation&pg=PA285#v=onepage&q=critical%20diameter%20detonation&f=false
It's touched on here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_material
and is more detailed here: