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Pure nitromethane is an insensitive explosive with a VoD of approximately 6,400 m/s (21,000 ft/s), but even so inhibitors may be used to reduce the hazards. The tank car explosion was speculated [citation needed] to be due to adiabatic compression, a hazard common to all liquid explosives. This is when small entrained air bubbles compress and ...
A nitro engine generally refers to an engine powered with a fuel that contains some portion (usually between 10% and 40%) of nitromethane mixed with methanol.Nitromethane is a highly combustible substance that is generally only used in very specifically designed engines found in Top Fuel drag racing and in miniature internal combustion engines in radio control, control line and free flight ...
An explosion of a minivan's engine caused a fire. [143] 7 March 2021 Equatorial Guinea: Bata: 107+ 615+ 2021 Bata explosions – Four explosions at a military base. [144] 12 March 2021 Pakistan: Marwar, Balochistan: 6 2 Natural gas explosion in a coal mine. [145] 14 March 2021 Tunisia: Gabès: 6 1 Tanker explosion at an asphalt plant. [146] 28 ...
The impact was reportedly made at 302 mph. The drag-racing legend was alert and examined at Virginia Motorsports Park before being transported to a local medical facility for further evaluation.
Determining the power of explosions is difficult, but this was probably the largest planned explosion in history until the 1945 Trinity atomic weapon test, and the largest non-nuclear planned explosion until the 1947 British Heligoland detonation (below). The Messines mines detonation killed more people than any other non-nuclear deliberate ...
A nitrous oxide engine, or nitrous oxide system (NOS) is an internal combustion engine in which oxygen for burning the fuel comes from the decomposition of nitrous oxide, N 2 O, as well as air. The system increases the engine's power output by allowing fuel to be burned at a higher-than-normal rate, because of the higher partial pressure of ...
The pK a values of nitromethane and 2-nitropropane are respectively 17.2 and 16.9 in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solution, suggesting an aqueous pK a of around 11. [22] In other words, these carbon acids can be deprotonated in aqueous solution. The conjugate base is called a nitronate, and behaves similar to an enolate.
On 9 January 2014, an explosion occurred at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan, killing at least five people and injuring 17 others. [2] [3]