angeltxilon
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Inversed thermobaric weapon? Oxidizer-terrain explosive
Consider a thermobaric weapon.
Thermobaric weapons are weapons that have fuel majority (unlike conventional explosives, possessing oxidant and fuel), and base their power in her
combustion with air.
But, could it be possible inverted thermobaric weapon?, ie, a weapon that has mostly oxidant instead fuel ?, normally a thing like this does not react
with air, but there are oxidants that are capable to reacting with air, for example chlorine trifluoride.
Then consider a thermobaric chlorine trifluoride compressed bomb, how destructive this would ?, how viable this would?
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As a "thermobaric bomb"? No. As an incendiary, yes.
I think it could make an air crew pretty darn nervous to deploy a large container of it.
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/san...
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Let’s put it this way: during World War II, the Germans were very interested in using it in self-igniting flamethrowers, but found it too nasty to
work with. It is apparently about the most vigorous fluorinating agent known, and is much more difficult to handle than fluorine gas. That’s one of
those statements you don’t get to hear very often
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Liquid oxygen could be considered an "oxidizer-terrain explosive". Pour it on asphalt and you have a pressure sensitive explosive.
Any other fuel substrate (wood, paper, cellulose debris, peat soil?) would be similar.
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I would say HYPOTHETICALLY, Nitrogen tribromide or triiodine could be used with an oxidizer to make something like that.... I would think to use Mn2O7
(Manganese Heptoxide) as the oxidizer, since it would work the best as an oxidizer.
Elements Collected: 19/81 (Excluding all radioactive, using placecard for those)
Any tips or good sources are welcome.
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