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On Mar 19, 8:55 am, "mark krawczuk" wrote:
Detonation is all of the fuel burning at once(explosion). A proper flame path will happen relatively slowly to push


The technical term is "High order reaction". The two options a

(1) A flame front moves across the gas, taking milliseconds. That
what happen when you light a match, or a spark plug fires in a
properly operating innternal combustion engine.

(2) High order: The reaction starts instantly at many places throught
the materinal, as it's heated to its iginition point throughout.
Takes place in nano to microseconds. That's what most explosives do.