Own_Win6000 t1_jbnpm3h wrote
Reply to comment by Tony2Punch in When The LAPD Blows Up Your Neighborhood (2023) the lapd mishandles a ton of fireworks [00:18:50] by Oh_Fuck_Naw
the Physics don’t care where your energy comes from
TheChemistAstronaut t1_jbnzpt8 wrote
But the chemistry does, lol
Different stuff explodes with different energy. You're telling me however many tons of fertilizer bomb would explode the same as the same amount of fireworks?
thunder_blue t1_jbo0767 wrote
No, they're telling you that the explosive force is the same in both cases. '45 lbs' is a description of the force, not the weight of the bomb/fireworks.
mrgonzalez t1_jbo44bh wrote
The original quote was on the weight of fireworks.
turnpot t1_jbpgvwg wrote
This is incorrect. First of all, the force from the fireworks is not measured in pounds; even if you're talking about the shock wave, the peak force from that at a given point would be measured in psi (pressure), and would vary wildly depending on where you measured it
Own_Win6000 t1_jbo157n wrote
Did you get your Chem BS from the university of phoenix?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent
Ahahaha he blocked me - every redditors favorite way to win an argument
I’ll always miss you /u/thechemistastronaut
TheChemistAstronaut t1_jbo2hsd wrote
Resorting to a personal attack, which is also just misguided (which chem BS teaches about explosive TNT equivalent measurements lol?) and linking Wikipedia instead of an actual source relevant to the situation at hand. Instead of being constructive you're just trying to inflate your own ego.
I suggest going and reading the (more relevant) LAPD 27th St After Action Report, LAPD 716 E. 27th Street AAR, and ATF Final TCV Report on the incident, which I did prior to commenting.
CowMetrics t1_jbp7k51 wrote
Not to mention each forework is in its own compartmentalized container. Taking far longer for them all to go off than if they were all ‘disassembled’ and put into a singular container. And then one that could partially contain the blast until everything was lit. Not all explosives are the same, they have different expansion and mechanisms of which to go off
The__Showoff t1_jbp57h1 wrote
Now that's a mic drop lmao
Tbagjimmy t1_jbnxcn9 wrote
My true hero, thank you.
entotheenth t1_jbnqe5e wrote
A ton of fireworks is not a ton of explosives, it’s mostly paper.
Own_Win6000 t1_jbnst23 wrote
Explosions are measured in the unit “tons of tnt”
WikiSummarizerBot t1_jbnsu06 wrote
>TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion. The ton of TNT is a unit of energy defined by that convention to be 4. 184 gigajoules, which is the approximate energy released in the detonation of a metric ton (1,000 kilograms) of TNT. In other words, for each gram of TNT exploded, 4.
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entotheenth t1_jbnu9zi wrote
And what does that have to do with the amount of perchlorate and paper wrapped around a Roman candle.
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