On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:08:06 -0000, (Dave Platt)
wrote:


It appears that burning is also a viable method of destroying TNT.
http://www.humanitarian-demining.org...tral/remic.asp
describes a method for destroying land mines "in situ" via burning.
It's a neat trick - a small shaped charge of explosive creates a
high-velocity gas jet which breaks open the (TNT-loaded) land mine,
and also delivers a charge of a pyrogenic chemical which ignites and
burns the TNT without detonating it.
Yep I have seen a documentary on TV where the cut open old WW2 bombs
(UK ones), and then simply burned the stuff in it.
That is how they get rid of the old bombs.
JP