On Aug 29, 7:39 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:
"Robert Swinney" wrote in message

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My favorite was several years back when the battleship magazine exploded
with black powder.

That's the kind of powder you'll find in battleship magazines, Bob. Those
16-inch guns are charged with sacks of black powder. They couldn't take the
pressure of anything else. That's why old photos of the New Jersey, the
Ohio, and so on show those huge blasts of smoke.

--
Ed Huntress

You need to check your facts a bit closer on this. Battleships did
carry black powder, but the 16 inch guns use mostly smokeless powder.

Dan