How does non electric detonation work?
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using a flamable detonator cord or a chemical detonator
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Conventional bombs are essentially a very violent chemical reaction, usually a very fast oxidation or a rapid decomposition of a very unstable compound.  In any case, a tremendous amount of heat is generated that causes a very fast expansion.  Aside from the heat generating a potential fireball, the rapid expansion creates shockwaves through the air and whatever other matter is in close proximity to the bomb.  It is this shockwave which does the most damage.\n\nAtomic/Nuclear weapons are a bit more complex, though the principles are essentially the same.  The chemical reaction is replaced by a nuclear chain reaction known as fission.  This produces a truly astronomical amount of heat, resulting in a mammoth shockwave.
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in space, it is a vaccum.  and on earth, the air pressure keeps your body intact.  there is a lot of pressure coming down upon your body and your body's pressure outward is kept at an equillibrium.  thus preventing you from exploding or imploding, unless you get too deep in the ocean you would implode from the excessive pressure from the water.\n\nin space, a vaccum, there isn't external pressure pushing against the pressure exerted by your body outwards hence causing you to explode.  once you have exploded... if you are far enough from any heat source, you will freeze.  if you are close enough to a heat source you will burn up.\n\nyou can test this vaccum idea by getting a plastic bottle and covering the opening with your mouth.  if you suck and suck really hard the air is removed, hence the bottle will become closer to a vaccum and the outside pressure will crush the less pressured bottle.  but if your tongue or lips are at the tip of the opening, it will hurt b/c that is the pressure from your body pushing outwards towards a less pressured area trying to obtain equilibrium.
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IMPACT EXPLOSIVES\n\n     Impact explosives are often used as primers.  Of the ones discussed here, only mercury fulminate and nitroglycerine are real explosives; Ammonium triiodide crystals decompose upon impact, but they release little heat and no light.  Impact explosives are always treated with the greatest care, and even the stupidest anarchist never stores them near any high or low explosives.\nCARBIDE BOMB\n\nThis is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. Exercise extreme caution.... Obtain some calcium\ncarbide. This is the stuff that is used in carbide lamps and can be found at\nnearly any hardware store.\n    Take a few pieces of this stuff (it looks like gravel) and put it in a\nglass jar with some water. Put a lid on tightly. The carbide will react with\nthe water to produce acetylene carbonate which is similar to the gas used in\ncutting torches.\n    Eventually the glass with explode from internal pressure. If you leave a\nburning rag nearby, you will get a nice fireball!\nSMOKE BOMBS\n\n     One type of pyrotechnic device that might be employed by a terrorist in\nmany way would be a smoke bomb.  Such a device could conceal the getaway\nroute, or cause a diversion, or simply provide cover.  Such a device, were it\nto produce enough smoke that smelled bad enough, could force the evacuation of\na building, for example.  Smoke bombs are not difficult to make.  Although the\nmilitary smoke bombs employ powdered white phosphorus or titanium compounds,\nsuch materials are usually unavailable to even the most well-equipped\nterrorist. Instead, he/she would have to make the smoke bomb for themselves.\n\n     Most homemade smoke bombs usually employ some type of base powder, such as\nblack powder or pyrodex, to support combustion.  The base material will burn\nwell, and provide heat to cause the other materials in the device to burn, but\nnot completely or cleanly.  Table sugar, mixed with sulfur and a base material,\nproduces large amounts of smoke.  Sawdust, especially if it has a small amount\nof oil in it, and a base powder works well also.  Other excellent smoke\ningredients are small pieces of rubber, finely ground plastics, and many\nchemical mixtures.  The material in road flares can be mixed with sugar and\nsulfur and a base powder produces much smoke.  Most of the fuel-oxodizer\nmixtures, if the ratio is not correct, produce much smoke when added to a base\npowder.  The list of possibilities goes on and on.  The trick to a successful\nsmoke bomb also lies in the container used.  A plastic cylinder works well, and\ncontributes to the smoke produced.  The hole in the smoke bomb where the fuse\nenters must be large enough to allow the material to burn without causing an\nexplosion.  This is another plus for plastic containers, since they will melt\nand burn when the smoke material ignites, producing an opening large enough to\nprevent an explosion.\n\nSIMPLE SMOKE/STINK BOMB \n\n       Simple smoke/stink bomb- you can purchaase sulphur at a drugstore under\nthe name flowers of sulphur.  now when sulphur burns it will give off a very\nstrong odor and plenty of smoke.  now all you need is a fuse from a\nfirecracker, a tin can, and the sulphur.  fill the can with sulphur(pack very\nlightly), put aluninum foil over the top of the can, poke a small hole into\nthe foil, insert the wick, and light it and get out of the room if you value\nyour lungs.  you can find many uses for this (or at least i hope so).\n\n\nSIMPLE SMOKE BOMB\n\nNeeded :\n\n Sugar\n\n Epson Salts\n\n 1.)  Mix the ingredients, 3 parts sugar, 6 parts epson salts.\n\n 2.)  Put the mixture in a tin container and heat it with a lighter.\n\n 3.)  When it has turned into a gel, put a fuse in it (a match will do).\n\n 4.)  Let the gel harden.\n\n\n5.13        SMOKE SMOKE SMOKE...\n\n  The following reaction should produce a fair amount of smoke.  Since this\n reaction is not all that dangerous you can use larger amounts if necessary\n\n 6 pt. ZINC POWDER\n 1 pt. SULFUR POWDER\n
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During a smash with a hammer two end of a metal show a potential difference. That is piezo electricity.\nDuring the smash electrons are displaced.\n\nTh
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Nothing in particular. There is a big 'boom' (with no sound because there is no air to vibrate) and there is a lot of light and a release of radiation, but that is about it. Basically, take an explosion on earth, and take away the earth, and voila.
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It has it's flammable state...Try to imagine it as a fuel air bomb.Thn there you will get your Idea.
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READ PATEINTLY.. IT MAY APPEAR LONG BUT I GURANTEE YOU SATISFACTION....\n\nyes it is safe....\n\n\nBUT NOT BECAUSE OF RUBBER TYRES..... REMEMBER...\n    \n    NOT BECAUSE OF RUBBER TYRES...\n\nActually when lightening strikes earth surface the charge is in search of the shortest path (least resistance path) to reach the zero potential surface that is earth. Now a car with metallic body is a very good thing to provide that short route to the ground. Same concept as that of a "lighting rod" placed at the top of high rise buildings which attract the lightning towards it instead of the building concrete.\n\nI assume that you know that A PERSON WILL NOT FEEL ANY SHOCK UNTILL AND UNLESS THERE IS FLOW OF CURRENT THROUGH HIS BODY PARTS...\n\nWhen light strikes on the car top, it will get dispersed in all directions and flow through the frame to the wheel frames and then jump from there to the road through the wet tyres. This short jump (of around 8 cm height), in any case, requires less work than conducting electricity through highly non conductive air for height of about a car (120 cm).. or pass through you head and get out from your shoes...\n\nNow imagine yourself sitting in car... you are not in contact from the top... so when light strikes it has 2 options... either to jump  to your head or flow through the conducting car body... answer is obvious and it will pass through the car body...\n\nNow if my legs are touching the car floor then why not i get a shock then..? so answer again is that now when charge is at the floor it is having a zero potential surface below it and there is no point entering into your body and move unneccesarily upwards...\n\nHope you got it...
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Such a pulse produces a standing wave. In such standing wave energy is not transferred from one place to another.\n\nAt each instant we see a wave, but the waves do not move.\n\nThere are certain points which never move, they are called nodes.\n\nBut between nodes the points are displaced.\n\nAt one instant, all points are motion less.\n\nAfter this instant, points that previously went up will now come down and vice versa.\n\nExcept the nodal points, all points are oscillating between potential and kinetic energy. \n\nThe maximum displacement corresponds to potential energy and the mean position corresponds to kinetic energy.\n\nAt the instant when all points are motion less, ALL POINTS EXCEPT THE NODAL POINTS have kinetic energy, by which they continue their oscillation.
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The explanations of fire in most standard reference works, not to put too fine a point on it, suck. The Encyclopaedia Britannica, for example, takes the following ineffectual stab: "rapid burning of combustible material with the evolution of heat and usually accompanied by flame." No wonder people have lost faith in science. Time to let a professional show how it's done. We'll start by reviewing the defects of the EB definition.\n\n(1) Rapid burning. OK, fire burns rapidly. Slow combustion, also known as oxidation, includes such nonfiery processes as rusting and digestion. However, to say that fire involves burning is to embark on a circular definition: What is fire? When something burns. What is burning? When something is on fire. We need to address the matter in more basic terms.\n\n(2) Combustible materials. Redundant. If a material is capable of rapid burning, by definition it's combustible. Also, "materials" is needlessly vague. One specific material, oxygen, is always involved.\n\n(3) Evolution of heat. I don't know what this is supposed to mean either.\n\n(4) Usually accompanied by flame. "Usually accompanied by" my arse. Flame is the quintessential pyrolytic phenomenon, not a mere by-product.\n\nNow for a proper definition, devised by myself: "Fire is the rapid combination of oxygen with fuel in the presence of heat, typically characterized by flame, a body of incandescent gas that contains and sustains the reaction and emits light and heat." Let's go through this bit by bit:\n\n(1) Rapid combination of oxygen with fuel in the presence of heat. Oxygen, fuel, and heat are the essential ingredients of fire. \n\n(2) Typically characterized by flame. The pup qualifier "typically" allows me to sidestep the issue of apparently nonflaming fires, like you get with burning charcoal. I suspect charcoal fires do create flame--you just can't see it due to the lack of impurities or incompletely burned fuel in the plume. (You can't see a fuel fire at an Indy or CART race either, because the cars run on clean-burning methanol.) But that's a matter we can leave for another day.\n\n(3) Body of incandescent gas. Flame defined. Most encyclopedia and dictionary definitions blow past this entirely, allowing persons such as yourself to imagine that fire is "pure energy" or similar nonsense. We say "body" because the gas has a characteristic structure and composition. We say "incandescent" because (a) it sounds scientific, (b) it means "luminous with intense heat," precisely what we are attempting to convey, and (c) if the Teeming Millions are going to learn one vocabulary word today, by God "incandescent" should be it.\n\n(4) Contains and sustains the reaction. Flame isn't just the result of fire; it is the fire. What's more, without the flame's heat the fire would go out.\n\n(5) Emits light and heat. Duh. However, we mustn't overlook the obvious.  \n\n>>>why do things that are put in it come out totally destroyed?\n\nOf course most things that go into fire aren’t totally destroyed. Most metals, glass, ceramic and so forth all emerge unscathed from fire. Even wood and paper aren’t totally destroyed, they leave an ash and charcoal residue as well as fine particles that we can see as soot and smoke.\n\nFire will ‘destroy’ anything organic that can be completely oxidised at the temperature that it burns at, but that is simply because the oxidation process converts the organic material to carbon dioxide,  and water. IOW the material isn’t destroyed it is just converted to gas and that gas blows away.\n\n>>>>>what fuel does it need from say, paper,\n\nThe paper IS the fuel the fire needs. The fire converts the paper into gases and ash. Or more accurately fire is the process of converting paper into gases and ash.
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!WARNING!\nFirst before I even answer your question.  I just like to warn you that if your actually attempting a stunt like this be very careful.  Connecting 100 AA Batteries(1.25V) in series will produce 125 Volts.  Be very careful with it!\n\nAnswer:\nThe SI units of the electric field are volts per meter.\nThe equation for an electric field is: (E=V/r)\nWhere E=Electric Field, V=Voltage, r=distance from point.\nSo a higher electric field means two things: Higher voltage, or less distance. In order for you to get the highest voltage connect the batteries in series as follows:\n\nConnection: \nYou would need to connect the battery in series as follows to get the highest voltage. \n Bat1  Bat2  Bat3  Bat4  Bat5  Bat6      Bat100\n[- +]o[- +]o[- +]o[- +]o[- +]o[- +]o....[- +]o\n\n\nWhy:\nThe electric field is dependent on the voltage and distance. Increasing voltage will directly increase the electric field.  Decreasing distance will increase the electric field. Look at the equation above. E=V/r\n\nAnother way to think of it:\nThink of Voltage as pressure. And a ball as an point charge(electron).  Suppose you have a water hose and a ball.  You have to use the water hose to move the ball around.  If your too far away from the ball, the water will not reach the ball and the ball won't move.  The same thing happens in electric field.  The electric field is too far from the electron to make it move.  Now suppose you increase the pressure on the water hose.  Because of the increased pressure(Voltage) the water will shoot further and hit the ball, thus moving it.  If your very close to the ball you can use the water pressure(Voltage) to move the ball faster.
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Absolutely.  In fact, there have been several different approaches, including zapping little pellets with a monster laser (NOVA), which are then immersed in water.  These minuscule nuclear bombs fuse and release their energy into the water, creating steam and turning turbines.\n\nThe most promising method, however, is a fusion reactor; a magnetic bottle which traps plasma.  Fusion occurs when the electromagnetic forces of nuclei (which are positive) are overcome.  In order to get nuclei, atoms are injected into the reactor and brought to immense temperatures.  The individual atoms, which are neutral, become so energetic that the electrons are stripped from the nuclei, creating plasma.  Plasma is simply free electrons (negatively charged and unbounded to a nucleus) and the positively charged nuclei.  Because these are positively and negatively charged, the plasma is contained within magnetic field lines.  This is the proverbial "magnetic bottle".\n\nThe nuclei smash into each other, creating helium nuclei and excess neutrons.  These neutrons are EXTREMELY energetic (14 MeV), and are neutrally charged.  Therefore, these neutrons zip right past the magnetic field lines.  The charged plasma remains, continuing the fusion process; and the neutrons are captured in water, where elastic collisions with H2O molecules transfers the energy from the neutrons to the water, heating the water, turning it to steam, and turning the turbines.\n\nThere are a couple of major problems.  First, the sun is very big and very hot.  Getting similar temperatures and pressures on Earth is next to impossible.  Although the energy released is several orders of magnitude greater than the energy put in when the process is going a full capacity, getting it started has been very difficult.  However, through TFTR and the new ITER, already the plasmas have generated more energy than were used to start the process.  This is a big step.\n\nAlso, the magnetic bottle and the plasma can experience some strange instabilities and wave functions.  Any time a harmonic resonance-like phenomena occurs, the fusion can break down, the plasma cools, and the process slows or stops.  As the test reactors continue to gather data, these phenomena are better understood.\n\nFinally, those 14 MeV neutron zip through the magnetic bottle and the water, and interact with impurities in the concrete and building materials, creating radioactive waste.  This waste is not insignificant - huge amounts of concrete becomes low-level waste.  Low level waste is NOT a measure of how dangerous it is - this stuff can be very dangerous - but it will only remain dangerous for about 100 years or so.  It's not the stuff that remains deadly for thousands of years.\n\nSo solve the instabilities, be able to sustain a plasma and reaction long enough to become self-sustaining, and be prepared for the low level waste, and fusion will become an almost unlimited energy supply.
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It's called 'impulse' and any good, lower division, physics book will have an explanation of what it is and how it works.\n\n\nDoug
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electrical discharge in the atmosphere
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Suppose that you have gas under low pressure, with an electrostatic field applied.  If an atom of the gas is ionized by some means, it will drift toward the negative electrode, with a speed that increases the farther it falls (just like a rock under gravity).  At some point, it will collide with another atom, and by the time it does so, it will - or will not -- have acquired enough energy from the electrostatic field to ionize the target atom.  If it does, the current will increase; if it doesn't, it will kick the target and lose much of its own energy in the process.  If the target is ionized, the process can accelerate in a chain reaction, and the current will increase rapidly until it runs into some sort of limit which is typically imposed by the external circuitry.  Bottom line: if the pressure is too high, the mean free path is too short for ionization to occur; if it is too low, there are not enough gas atoms to carry the current.
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i dont know... its crazy..... the law in NI is slightly different, but still, you can get them.\n\nit's always amazed me, especially as you can openly bye the Remote detonators (From a remote control car / or a cheap pager, and page the No) or even you can bye the pressure pads too (from a scrap yard / most cars now have them in the seats, so when you sit down with power in the car, the seat belt light comes on) and obviously timing devices and command wire ones are just so so easy to make..... (believe it or not you can even bye electronic detonators too)... \nbut then again, as all this is so easy to get hold of / make, I'm sure people know hoe to make explosives now a days anyway, like anfo / ans / a/f mix or even just fire bombs from pressurised petrol......\n\nits frightening how these things are so widely available, but then again, why bye it now a days when you could make it untraced....\n\ndont get me TOTALLY wrong, im all against it, im as shocked as you............. good question\n\nAlex, fertiliser bombs are not as easy as bags of fertiliser and a det..... lol........ thats the ANS explosive i mentioned previous.... and you need to get the mix right and the grounding perfect.... lol, not just explosive fertiliser
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I know that it comes from the ground and moves upwards into the sky. But I do not know the explanation. Think its gotta do with static electricity building up and blah blah blah resulting in a surge from ground to sky blah blah blah.....