Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Mushroom Clouds

Mushroom clouds are often associated purely with atom bombs, the fact is that mushroom clouds are a result of convection, the movement caused by heat in a fluid.  Any explosion can create a mushroom shape.

Below is a photo of several concurrent gasoline explosions, you can see very clearly the mushroom shape of the fireball.


http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/1267/

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