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So-called "butane honey oil" was available briefly in the 1970s. [3] [15] This product was made in Kabul, Afghanistan, and smuggled into the United States by The Brotherhood of Eternal Love. Production is thought to have ceased when the facility was destroyed in an explosion. [16]
A balloon filled with gaseous hydrogen exploding.. A gas explosion is the ignition of a mixture of air and flammable gas, typically from a gas leak. [1] In household accidents, the principal explosive gases are those used for heating or cooking purposes such as natural gas, methane, propane, butane.
In thermodynamics, explosive boiling or phase explosion is a method whereby a superheated metastable liquid undergoes an explosive liquid-vapor phase transition into a stable two-phase state because of a massive homogeneous nucleation of vapor bubbles.
By Sadie Gurman May. 6, 2014 2:07 AM EDT DENVER (AP) - The opening months of Colorado's first-in-the-nation recreational marijuana industry have seen a rise in fiery explosions and injuries as pot ...
Let's call the incident playing out in the Gulf of Mexico what it is: an oil explosion. An "oil spill" is just too polite a way to put it. And normally, when something spills, it quickly empties ...
April 3 – A crude oil pipeline ruptured east of Blanding, Utah, spilling about 5,000 barrels (790 m 3) of crude oil into the San Juan River. The ruptured pipeline was reported to flow "wide open" for over an hour. [143] April 28 – A butane pipeline ruptured in Conroe, Texas, forcing residents in an eight-block area to evacuate. [144]
A BLEVE–fireball at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery, as rendered by the CSB. A boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE, / ˈ b l ɛ v iː / BLEV-ee) is an explosion caused by the rupture of a vessel containing a pressurized liquid that is or has reached a temperature sufficiently higher than its boiling point at atmospheric pressure.
The explosion could propagate to all or the majority of the items stored together, causing a mass detonation. There will also be fragments from the item's casing and/or structures in the blast area. 1.2 Non-mass explosion, fragment-producing. HC/D 1.2 is further divided into three subdivisions, HC/D 1.2.1, 1.2.2 and 1.2.3, to account for the ...