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A gas explosion is the ignition of a mixture of air and flammable gas, typically from a gas leak. In household accidents, the principal explosive gases...38 KB (4,303 words) - 14:18, 31 October 2024- example, the Trauzl lead block test. An explosion may occur under two general conditions: the first, unconfined, as in the open air where the pressure...5 KB (775 words) - 17:35, 16 June 2021
Buncefield fire (redirect from 2005 Hemel Hempstead oil depot explosion)an unconfined vapour cloud explosion of unusually high strength – also known as a fuel-air explosion. Because of an inversion layer, the explosions were...54 KB (5,357 words) - 03:03, 17 October 2024- 1970. The pipeline was owned by Phillips Pipeline Company. Unconfined vapor cloud explosion 2005 Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire (Buncefield disaster)...2 KB (234 words) - 03:46, 18 January 2023
Thermobaric weapon (redirect from Unconfined vapor cloud explosions)accidental unconfined vapor cloud explosions, which include those from dispersions of flammable dusts and droplets. Such dust explosions happened most...71 KB (6,934 words) - 11:48, 1 November 2024
engine at ignition. In the worst cases, this takes the form of an unconfined explosion, resulting in the damage or destruction of the engine. Rocket fuels...100 KB (11,709 words) - 16:03, 2 October 2024
gas, which also burns; carbon dioxide (CO2) is not effective, either. Unconfined magnesium burns through deflagration (flames), which is controlled combustion...14 KB (1,702 words) - 19:33, 5 June 2024
Pressure (redirect from Explosion pressure)Pressure washing Explosion or deflagration pressures are the result of the ignition of explosive gases, mists, dust/air suspensions, in unconfined and confined...45 KB (5,661 words) - 05:05, 7 November 2024
adequately described how the structure is formed and sustained behind unconfined waves. When used in explosive devices, the main cause of damage from a...17 KB (1,886 words) - 23:05, 13 August 2024- Feyzin disaster (category Explosions in France)bursting pressure vessel are relatively localised compared with unconfined vapour cloud explosions. Therefore, evacuation of up to 0.5 km will usually ensure...6 KB (907 words) - 04:00, 27 May 2024
Flixborough disaster (category Chemical plant explosions)summarised a published 1973 conference paper as follows: Unconfined vapour cloud explosions had been experienced since the 1930s; by the early 1970s there...58 KB (8,039 words) - 06:04, 7 November 2024
Supernova (redirect from Supernova explosion)supernova (pl.: supernovae or supernovas) is a powerful and luminous explosion of a star. A supernova occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a...201 KB (21,940 words) - 01:17, 3 November 2024- that is higher than if the explosive had been detonated in open air. Unconfined velocities are often approximately 70 to 80 percent of confined velocities...4 KB (499 words) - 21:49, 20 September 2024
liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE), unconfined vapor cloud explosion (UVCE), confined explosion (CE), and mechanical explosion (ME). Normally, there...16 KB (1,837 words) - 00:09, 12 April 2024
a small static discharge are all capable of explosively detonating an unconfined pile of silver fulminate no larger than a dime and no heavier than a few...9 KB (948 words) - 15:35, 23 January 2024
intakes with no pipe or bends before the intake to stop confined and unconfined, low pressure deflagrations, preventing an ignited atmospheric vapor cloud...8 KB (935 words) - 08:23, 26 October 2024
industrial explosives, measuring 3,200 m/s in 130 mm (5 in) diameter, unconfined, at ambient temperature. It is described as a non-ideal high explosive...17 KB (1,949 words) - 00:55, 11 October 2024
September 1985 Midwest Express Flight 105 – the NTSB concluded that an unconfined failure of the 9th - 10th stage compressor spacer occurred immediately...26 KB (2,628 words) - 00:19, 26 September 2024
contamination, caused by the delivery of radioactive materials through unconfined aquifers to the groundwater network It proved to be particularly challenging...27 KB (3,462 words) - 06:27, 3 November 2024
greater depths than dug wells. Two broad classes of well are shallow or unconfined wells completed within the uppermost saturated aquifer at that location...48 KB (6,096 words) - 05:22, 27 September 2024
- the ease of explosion; these two bodies, each of itself highly explosive, form when united one which is quite the reverse. When unconfined, a primer of
- in the void, like that of gunpowder burned in the open air, and steam unconfined by science; but, striking in the dark, and its blows meeting only the
