Horizontal View TNT Cylinder (IMAGE)

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Horizontal View TNT Cylinder

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This is a horizontal view 2m across of a 2 kg TNT cylinder being top-detonated. The detonation products expand into air at a rate of several mm/usec, with a shock at the surface of the products (the explosive near-field). As air drag slows the detonation products, the shock detaches and travels through the ambient air - the explosive mid-field.

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McNesby/U.S. Army Research Laboratory

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