Explain the power of explosions please.?

Question

I don't understand the power of different boms. If a M-80 fire cracker will blow up the 3 on the thirty yard line, a granade will blow up how much. What is the radios of damage. What about a tank round, and a 75 mm, and a WW2 88, what about a 100 pound bomb, a 1000 pound bomb. An atomic bomb. I don't understand how much damage each will do. Please include information about the rockes the Hezbollah are using. (The old Russian Stallin Organs I think they are.) Thank you.

Answer 1

It is really better for the Physicists to answer this, but it all depends on a lot of things. The typical kill/injury radius of a grenade is rated at 5/15 meters I think. That is not as a direct result of the explosion though, it is a result of a metal case trying to hold the explosive together and breaking into sharp pieces hitting nearby objects causing damage. One Marine (Ooh-Rah) has a tale that he saved his fire team in Nam by diving on a active grenade and it blew between the floor and his belly. None of his friends got injured, and he lived to tell this story. Perhaps the floor was weaker than his 6-pack abs and the energy accelerated to the weaker material.

Factors that are used for calculating explosives are energy released expansion of material and the rate it expands; like I think I heard Nitro-glycerine has a 172:1 expansion (heard it in 197? probably not accurate), so a tree has a greater expansion ratio than that but it's slow where nitro is fast. Checked it today and the nitro sphere moves at over 17 thousand miles per hour. That'll hurt if it raeaches you. Even a distant shock wave is likely to knock you back like a football dummy. TNT is almost as powerful as Nitro but much safer etc.

How big the material gets when it goes solid to liquid is most of the stuff of explosives, but they also give off different types of heat when they change form. I'm pretty sure gunpowder gives off a lot of heat as it goes solid to gas.

Containment of this expansion is what causes the intended work to be produced. The barrel of the tank is too strong to break from the blast of the charge, but the round can't hold back and gets pushed out by the pressure. A thing sent by the tank (projectile) may or may not have it's own explosive in it to do a work after it arrives at it's intended location.

Nukes are really hot but they are also tons of that dangerous material. They are most dangerous when they pop in the ground because they send up nuked dirt to land on everybody, icky-poo. Grenades are made with a weak enough wrapper that they will break, but I imagine we could make a metal-case that was so strong that when the grenade was activated, it just burped inside it and nobody would hear it, or get hurt. Same for work with dynamite. Set the stick on a rock and hear a big noise, shove it in a deep hole and plug it, and the side of the rock falls off. Too far from the edge and no rock falls off, but the plug comes out in a hurry...

I haven't been following the Hezbollah thing, but I bet if you watch the History Channel on cable television, you'll see what you want to know eventually.

Answer 2

Okay...here it is in a nut shell..... Every bomb explodes. Unless it's a dud but that's a different story. The bigger the bomb the bigger the explosion. When a bomb explodes(especially a big one) It knocks you and everything around you flat on your keester. This happens with a huge amount of force at a tremendous speed. That's why when you see these pictures of Saddam's boys dead after the bombing or Big Al Zarqwai.They really aren't all that bloody and stuff. Cuz well imagine someone picking you up and throwing you against
the wall at about 200 mph. The impact is so fast and intense all the injury is on the inside. Your body is like one big blood blister. You literally bleed to death on the inside......

Answer 3

There are really too many variables to make a fair determination of EXACT damage differences. For example, precise mixture ratios of the chemicals, age of the chemicals used, target density and composition, distance of target from detonation, shell casing materials, delivery methods, trajectory paths, even things as simple as wind direction and speed, humidity levels, and air temperature will have an effect on an explosion. Typically, all things being equal, the explosive power of a ton of TNT will release about 4.2x109 joules upon ignition, therefore 1 kiloton of TNT is 4.2x1012 joules, and 1 megaton of TNT is 4.2x1015 joules.

Answer 4

I don't think I can answer your question but unlike the movies, high explosive really does explode with an incredible amount of heat and pressure, not to mention the shrapnel that is moving with the explosion. Sometimes it doesn't make any sense either, I had a grenade land near me, go off, knocked me down but I didn't get so much as a pin prick of shrapnel. Two friends were badly wounded... It is terrifying, no other way to put it, and with that I don't want to say anymore.....

Answer 5

What kind of radios are you concerned about being dammaged? Walk man? Home stereo? Car radio? The power of explosions is that they can cause damage rather quickly (faster than you can get away) by changing a liquid or a solid into a gas via (i forget, something that causes change, catalist(?). Well that's the best I could do. Good luck

Answer 6

I know nuclear weapons are measured in megatons...

Its not just the force of the explosion, its what its pushing. Lots of scrapnel = lots of damage.

Shaped charges explode with all their force in one direction.

Everyone is talking about those pipe organ bombs. Sounds like the German Nebelwurfers, which American vets talked about being so destructive.

Answer 7

Don't know about the rest but a typical grenade (As used by our armed forces) has an effective kill range of 50 meters and an effective casualty range of 100 meters.

Answer 8

as long as you said thank you i take this as a real question. so check out ordinance on the inter-net . im sure you;ll find out faster with pics . That also depends on your target and the damage you'd like to do. like blow up a building or kill people or sometimes both and more

Answer 9

Explosive power is on a need to know basis. You obviously don't need to know, or you would have been told. How do I know you're not a terrorist trying to figure out how big a bomb he/she needs to blow up a target? Nice try, bucko!

Answer 10

each one has a different ratio, depends on how big it is and what it's made of.

the hezbollah uses different types of rockets. they also enhance them with different explosives that would basically spray whoever gets near the explosion and kill them as well.