Thread: How does blast size scale with energy required?
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Old 10-July-2008, 03:19 PM
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The volume of material vaporized (and the energy required to vaporize it) goes up as the cube of the radius of the crater...

However, with craters, there will be other lower-order effects having to do with the materials and environments, such as how well the atmosphere contains the blast. As the size of the blast increases, it is easier to pop the atmosphere above the blast, and so some energy is lost.
As the cube...WOW!

Can vaporization occur outside the radius of the crater and what if it was an airburst?
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