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Old 22-June-2007, 05:03 AM
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People striking a match, wick lighter etc. in a dark place and they're surrounded by dozens, nay, hundreds of crates of trinitrotoluene sticks (Why'd they leave all those perfectly good explosives behind? Can't be cheap.). Then they freak out and blow out or turn off the flame. Yeah..., it's not going to blow up inside its crates just because you have a little flame on a tiny stick or on the end of a little metal box in your hand. Perhaps if you get your kicks by pouring kerosene oil on all those crates and setting them alight you could get the TNT to blow up.

Now for something that actually could happen, you strike a match or lighter in a subterranean coal mine and the suspended coal dust forms a fuel-air mixture and BLOOM!.
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