Abstract
The detonation of a charge of explosive, which occurs when firing a cannon shot, exploding a landmine, or in an aerial bombardment, is due to a chemical reaction (named oxidation) that conceptually and energetically is the same as the one occurring when heat is produced by burning kerosene in a boiler, coal in a furnace, or a log in a fireplace. What changes in the two cases is only a thermodynamic parameter, known as reaction rate.
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Risoluti, P. (2004). A special energy and its enemies. In: Nuclear Waste. Environmental Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09012-1_2
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