05-22-2007, 06:31 AM
Quote:Seriously, I would look for secondary explosions to come from other sources like natural gas containers, or some freak aerosol or particulate explosion. In order to get the scale of the secondary explosion I saw, you would need lots of compression and subsequently rapid gas expansion in the explosion. This might have been possible if the explosives were stored in somewhat sealed cargo containers, which when super heated acted like massive bombs. This is another reason why modern explosives are bigger. We understand now how to introduce substances, like water, into explosives to vastly increase the pressure wave.
I agree with you, this is also what I with my knowledge of explosives and detonations thought.
Gunpowder will only explode when it is in a sealed container. (there was much more then just gunpowder there by the way, so also explosive powders) But anyway, there were a lot of those (reasonably) sealed containers on that premesis. If one seacontainer containing a few tons of powder it might cause such an explosion (I would think).