[SML] SML Fireworks Basics

[Dougherty, Jim]

On 7/10/18, Michael Powers wrote:

    The definitions should make it clear why a deflagration type of reaction is absolutely necessary for a projectile to be accelerated down a tube (gun barrel, fireworks mortar tube, et. al.  Whereas a detonation or explosion simply won?t work!

What if, hypothetically, one were to put explosives under something shaped like a paraboloid…would it launch it in any appreciable way? Small scale Project Orion?