entotheenth t1_jbnqe5e wrote
Reply to comment by Own_Win6000 in When The LAPD Blows Up Your Neighborhood (2023) the lapd mishandles a ton of fireworks [00:18:50] by Oh_Fuck_Naw
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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