On 4/22/2018 1:26 PM, John Schilling wrote:
It's just that, once you ignite the stuff in the chamber, it gets real enthusiastic about passing the word to its still-chill friends about this hot new "fire" stuff and convinces them to try it out before they've reached the proper venue. I don't think we ever measured a critical diameter.
Well-behaved until it meets a significant ignition source, then everything with physical continuity to the ignition point undergoes a deflagration-to-detonation transition. We had some ideas on how to approach that, but nothing that would meet cost and schedule and nothing we were going to submit an F-15 crew to.