"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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"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.

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Ed Huntress


So sorry, the propellant ISN'T black powder. Actually, it's a mix of
different propellants and grain sizes. There is some black powder but it is
@75% smokeless powder, and some HE.