[SML] SML Fireworks Basics

[billn at peak.org]

>     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?

It has been demonstrated experimentally on a small scale. Although I don't
know whether HE was used or not.

Bill