Detonation

From Citizendium
Revision as of 11:52, 27 April 2010 by imported>Howard C. Berkowitz (New page: {{subpages}} <!-- Text is transcluded from the BASEPAGENAME/Definition subpage-->)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Detonation [r]: Extremely fast combustion in solids or fluids, which produces a supersonic shock wave with a detonation velocity; self-propagating through compression, heating and ignition of the explosive [e]

This article contains just a definition and optionally other subpages (such as a list of related articles), but no metadata. Create the metadata page if you want to expand this into a full article.