Ahhhhh...... (eeeee)
Isn't combustion a kind of thing where a fuel is combined with an oxidant
and a flame front travels across the mixture? (But the flame front can
travel 'really fast' so that it may seem like an explosion.)
Isn't an 'explosion' a situation where the oxidizer is already in the
molecular structure with the fuel (i.e. not a fuel air mixture), a kind
of unstable chemical, that just needs a shock of some sort to make it
'convert' and give up it's energy - so that it can go all at once and
not have a 'flame front'?
(I clearly don't have a handle on this.)
Thanks,
Jim W.
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