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From: wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin)
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Subject: Re: Size of Fuel Air Munitions
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Date: 24 Jan 91 04:01:32 GMT
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From: wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin)
In article <1991Jan18.003342.8441@cbnews.att.com> malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy) writes:
>
>In a book on explosives I flipped through a couple of years ago, there
>was a statement that one pint of gasoline, vaporized and ignited, had
>the same blast effect as (I'm unsure of the exact number) something on
>the close order of twenty _pounds_ of TNT. 

Well, a pint of gas plus the O2 to burn it weigh about 3 lb, so the
discrepancy is smaller than it looks.  
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