Glass Lined Shaped Charge Penetrates 2 inches of Steel.

Glass penetrates steel from explosive shaped charge. Munroe effect.

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[Bobsyth]

@derekm280 Some reactions require heat, others only require pressure, however some require heat and pressure. You can set C4 on fire and it won't blow up. You can hit it with a hammer and it won't explode. However you can't set it on fire and hit it with a hammer if you want to keep your hand. Reactions with a low explosive velocity or RE factor won't work because the gases would escape before heating the cone. But I thought I said that already.

[derekm280]

@Bobsyth Some chemical reactions require energy aka, require heat. Doesnt the heat required to form the glass jet come from the pressure around the glass? Thats why explosives with a high velocity explosion are used in these so that the casings can be made from something weaker like a plastic or thin metal rather than a heavy metal casing with a slower burning charge that takes longer to build the same pressure.

[boomboom314159]

nice!

[antiswattt2]

dream job. but theyre gonna put censor onto ''terror sites'' in denmark.. so you can actually go to prison or something else if you go onto it.. because some somalia attacked a danish guy called kurt westergaard.. with an axe.. drawed a picture of mohammed with a bomb in the turban.. denmark is getting extremely communistic

[Bobsyth]

I've done this with half of a wine bottle, and some C4. Not quite the same, but we we're experimenting with expedient explosions, something you can improvise if you have to in a hurry.

[Bobsyth]

yeah I'm sure. Its not a flame that melts it, every explosion generates high amounts of energy released in the form you see as expanding gases, this energy creates heat. Every single chemical reaction creates heat, some more rapidly than others. The hole is small relative to the glass you noticed that? that is due to the explosion expanding evenly around the cone its formed into a tight spire. The explosion inverts the cone, turning it into a glass jet. I am Combat Engineer, trust me I know.

[antiswattt2]

you sure? its not really because that HE makes a flame or something.. i dont think the flame (if there is any) will be enough to melt it.. but maybe the air restistance.. o_O

[Bobsyth]

The glass melts

[iwasapenny]

In the "unconventional shaped charges" thread I am assuming? Might have to read that one again.

[chemoxid]

acctually , axt posted on old science madness forums that glass is better than many others liners but not as good as copper.