"Ancient_Hacker" wrote in message
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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.


Bingo! And it produces a shock wave that combustion does not.