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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Disposition of American Battleships
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Date: 25 Oct 90 15:07:04 GMT
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
>From: deichman@cod.nosc.mil (Shane D. Deichman)
>>... It is interesting to note that they physicists present theorized
>>that the pressure wave from the deep-water blast would actually create a
>>large block of ice as one of its effects.
>
>No flame, but I find this hard to believe since water is one of the
>few substances which is actually densest as a liquid (at 4 degrees
>C., with one atmosphere pressure)...

The compression wave from a nuclear explosion is followed by a rarefaction
wave of below-ambient pressure.  That might do the trick.
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The type syntax for C is essentially   | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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