Re: 'Tis the Season to be Noisy.

[Chuck Britton <britton@NCSSM.EDU>]

Interesting!

Is the can ruptured by the blast?

If so where?

If not, is the concave bottom now convex? I take it that the can was
upright when lit.


At 1:31 PM -0500 7/1/01, brian whatcott,  you wrote about 'Tis the
Season to be Noisy.:


> My younger son, fresh out of high school, is trying his entrepreneurial
> wings by managing a fireworks stand. (Hereabouts, these are necessarily
> outside the city limits, and the day time ambient is into the nineties).
>
> He reports that boredom is the major preoccupation, so he brightened when
> some youthful customers showed him the trick du jour.
>
> He demonstrated it for me: take a coke can one third full of water,
>  and place in it, a lit "depth charge". [This is a waterproof black cat
> style banger of 5 X 0.5 cm L X D]
>
> The can takes off to an altitude of 2 or 3 meters. There is a little
> spray of liquid too. How does this work, would you say?
>
> Obligatory Caution:
> Note, this trick is dangerous, and can be disfiguring, if one
> does not "retire after lighting the touch paper".
>
>
> brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>  Altus OK
>                 Eureka!

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