How Different Explosives Work | The Science of Explosives 

There was no science of how different explosives work in this video, as the title implies. Very disappointed!

I thought this would about chemical composition and different applications for each one. 😔

I see a problem with the medical delivery device in particular. It basically generates a jet injection injury, and similar devices that have used other techniques such as high pressure pumps have been proven to cause splashback of bodily fluids onto the nozzle, so the next patient might get AIDS along with the intended injection. We already have massive economies of scale that make safety needles dirt cheap (where a single use needle automatically retracts or a cover is deployed once used, which prevents both intentional reuse and accidental needlestick injuries).

I must admit I was expecting more detail on the different types of explosives, their uses and how they are made.

I was hoping to see 'the science of explosives' and how different explosives work rather than a list of their uses.

It all depends on what you eat, black beans mixed with cabbage creates some earth shattering shit

The automotive use reminds me of the Cartridge Activated Devices we use on aircraft. For instance, the cargo hoist on an MH-60S has a CAD to cut the cargo hook to keep the aircraft from going down in case the cargo hook becomes entangled. As for explosive-driven injections, anyone who's been through boot camp is familiar with the idea.

Yes, I accidentally invented a new kind of rocket fuel,,5 crystal burgers, lots of hot sauce and a 6 pack of beer,,when I set it off in the restroom I had to hold on to the handicap bars to stay down because of the massive thurst,,I won't be doing that again...WOW...

Considering how regulated everything is in Germany, the paperwork and bureaucracy for anything related to civilian usage of demolition agents must be an absolute nightmare.

As far as I know, the Chinese didn't use explosives for war but instead used them to ward off evil spirits. I also read they were used in celebrations.

No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.

Mouse in the basement: " Cool, a new hole for me to move into."

Car Airbags. I have heard of cases in the USA where Men that smoke a tobacco pipe while driving have had it driven through their mouth and out the back of their head by airbags killing them instantly. I’m surprised we haven’t seen this in a Hollywood Movie yet that I know of.

watching this video: they about to put me on a list lol

Thank you for the film itself and for all of the work it takes to capture and assemble it. The editing in particular was a treat.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="961">16:01</a> This reminds me of what the TV show "60 Minutes" did. They wanted to show how Ford "Pinto" gas tanks would explode when the car experienced a rear-end collision. But they just couldn't get those Pinto tanks to explode! HOW could they convince people that those cars were evil, nasty, unsafe death-traps, when, uh...they weren't? Of course! Attach some dynamite & a detonator to the tank, and then, "BOOM!" when the car was hit from behind!

This was a blast to watch

Maybe you should put your so-called dust sprinklers upwind or MUCH closer so they might have ANY chance of affecting the amount of dust. As is looks like an awful lot of expense for absolutely no effect

In basic training, in the US military, they had air pressure injectors. We were told not to move during injection, otherwise there would be a cut, bleeding and a permanet scar.

Explosives can bring about great feats in human intelligence in mere microseconds. I learned this as a 10 year old when I held onto a lit firecracker a bit too long. No real damage but hurt like hell. In a millisecond I went from uninformed to NEVER FORGET to NOT do that again.

Nothing about the science of explosives, just their applications. Still, a cool video. Thanks.

Really interesting documentary. The part about the explosives being used in car technology for safety kinda blew my mind. The precision there is amazing.

Shout out to my alma mater, Missouri University of Science and Technology (the people with the green shirts as St. Patrick is the patron saint of engineers and I have no idea why). Anyway, it was formerly Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, so a natural progression there. My first introduction to how explosive energy works in relation to rock formations was in 1970 with the Geophysics Department. We have come a long, long way. BTW, if they didn't say it loud enough, "Don't try this at home." LOL!

The title could be "How Various Explosives Work".

Most amazing video! Thank you all for your work on this movie.

Masterful demolition. But whose idea was it to liquidate so much living space among such lush greenery? That's at least 300 housing units!

"How explosives are used" - Fixed the title for you.

Car battery safety feature! Great!

Explosives won't take us to the stars, a few planets maybe but not the stars :)

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="374">6:14</a> Doesn't black powder, as a low explosive, deflagrate rather than detonate?

It's crazy how easy it is to make explosives.......black powder and nitroglycerin are easily made with store bought supplies that are not government regulated in any way

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="284">4:44</a> that’s a beautifully made shaped charge, wow.

This video would have better titled something like "Different uses of explosives" rather than the present title ("How Different Explosives Work") which suggests focusing on their inner structure or chemistry. I can understand their use of a British narrator who pronounces _aluminum_ so Britishly which sounds so odd to my ears!

thank you so much for your help and science and generosity

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="501">8:21</a> they make special cutting tools that are not made out of metal to minimize a chance of static electricity causing an explosion

What a blast

A fantastic watch , who needs movies.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="845">14:05</a> and i thought those actors were running from real bullets. I mean they ARE paid in the millions

Great video. Excellent work by both the explosives experts and the video maker/s.😀

i do love kah pahks.

Click bait again. No explosives like the description lead us to believe.

Am i on a watchlist now? :(

Thats a fine solid concrete apartment building. With the housing prices going up, I dont like the idea of demolishing it. Im sure there is space to build the new fancy buildings other places.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1776">29:36</a> It's exactly the wrong way round. Savage...

With so much need for housing, for young and not so young people, why destroy instead of completing DWELLINGS? Only in very RICH countries!!!

Demolition expert handing his company to someone scared of heights. 🤦‍♂🤣

Wanted more detail. How big were the desired rocks vs the actual rocks in the quarry? What angles were the buildings supposed to fall at and when vs what happened. I wanted to evaluate the results rather than counting on your rosy commentary. It was nice but I have no idea if it worked as expected. The building did not work as expected, they got lucky.

"So called hollow charge"... what? "So called" is a sarcastic prefix to indicate that you dont believe what is being said after it... the BBC use it a lot!

Great

Missouri SnT a collage with a mining and explosives deportment <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="39">0:39</a>

The voiceover wasn't credited - it sounded rather like Davina McCall but I wonder if it was AI? The pronunciation of Gran-Eyet rather than Gran-It was a bit strange..

Hollow charges, okay, this is what you mean shaped. Charges literally knives inexplive form. Actually I consider them quite beautiful because they do something that they're not supposed to do. They explode inward but not imploding

Mining can be done with water and liquid nitrogen too

Destruction for re-construction and protection.

Was this for a children's channel? If so it's excellent. If aimed at adults, I'm terrified these people can vote. Also, that'a a very realistic AI voice......I assume AI because nobody with an English accent has ever referred to Granite as if it were a mineral composed of nans.

The lithium is explosive by itself So it can explote

Is " Gran Aight " any relation to " Grannit? "

What would they use if they needed to blow up a structure made out of titanium

Kinda curious if anyone knows what movie that bmw got blown up for

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="22">0:22</a> they also take lives in Takata airbags. ;)

The ironic thing being the Chines alchemist's where looking for something to extend life, when they found something that's very good at ending it.

Very interesting look on how explosives have developed in diversity for the good. Gaz UK.

Several folk have asked 'Has viewing this put me on a Watchlist. And several replies say 'Should be OK in a Democracy'. Well ........ My favourite Parable is the tale of the Medieval King: 'Merlin', he said, 'You are my most trusted advisor - The ONLY person I know will speak truth to me. And, well, I KNOW I'm Paranoid ,,,,,, but ,,,, *Speak honestly - Am I Paranoid ENOUGH'* ?

She keeps saying the word granite incorrectly. Weird

Existem problemas que só resolvem com uma explosão. Quebrar rochas , desmanchar edifícios. Abrir vãos. E desmanchar montanhas.

Shape charges??

What is the top secret film theyre shooting? (Its mentioned a few times, the car is exploded at about <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1500">25:00</a>)

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="22">0:22</a> - Ughhh?... Rocket engines are not "explosions/explosives", instead they use deflagration to provide their thrust.

This is a dumbed-down video more about history than explosives technology.

Footprint

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="239">3:59</a> why did she say so-called Hollow charge

What's granight?

Watchlistssssss

OMFG........ But where do you put 40000 tonnes of rubbls..........roads?

I WANNA BE A BLASTING ENGINEER WHEN I GROW UP!!!

All this for what? And what about the CO2?

Ascanio it's pronounced "ASKÁNIO", not "ASHÉNIO"

Dear INTERPOL, Now that this video has shown the storage location of High-Explosives in Europe and that it's guarded not by the vault door but the $5 padlock on the box where the door handle is, you "Might" want to think about either upgrading the security or moving the location. Seriously, I LOVE an informative video as much as the next guy, but WHY give people like ISIS/ISIL this kind of info?

EV fires start because of the short-circuit INSIDE the batteries. So cutting of power to the rest of the car is useless. Yous should invent something to eject burning batteries from the car.

Some lithium fires happen due to a short in the wires but in car accidents a punctured battery can trigger a full fire too or dendritic can form in a battery cell after time and short the battery from within one of the thousands of cells . One battery shorts out the others and fire spreads throughout . The detonator device will only cure the first problem .

Well she better get over being afraid of heights real quick because there is a lot of times she has to go up in high-rises

Cool seeing an old timer hand over control to the next generation. Couldn't help but think...he's not ready to go just yet..lol. Can't be easy walking away from a lifetime of work. Good think for the young women...if she's smart and I think she is....she always has some she and wisdom to fall back on a get some advice when needed. I wish her well.

I dont any security

If we will not have those explosives , we will have no other way , but only to allow the homeless people to have a ruf when otside getting cold . So ask your self now again : For what r good those explosives ? 😢 When we may become humans ???

This isn't perfect but its a good material showing uses of the explosives. Many see them as solely weapons of war but actually majority of explosives today are produced for the airbags and seat belt tensioners - saving lives! Each car contains several charges, just think about that. Also no wonder Germany appears here a lot. They have well regulated and clear market for explosives engineers, other countries are to convoluted its near impossible to start a legitimate business in this area. In my country we are all treated as potential criminals, terrorist or seditionists... All I wanted was to do pyro shows but the red tape was just too much to be worth effort. Also to keep my pyro/explosive papers I need to renew them constantly by taking very expensive course that teaches me fucking nothing and its always the same! lol I remember a guy giving lecture telling us that we probably know more than him xD In the end I switched to electronics, its so easy to just build and do projects without 20 governments agencies spying you.

Thats funny...my ex called me " the white giant"

this a for kids women splained docu

Worthless fluff.

I don't know the allies were doing that 1942-1945.....

i just cannot watch a docco that gets the terminology wrong. hollow charge lol lol lol

Excellent video, love it. Voice overs would have been nice instead of subtitles though.

I'm going to say that the test on the building that they wanted to collapse with the sand and the drilling holes The blasters already knew the results so why did you even put in there and have them act. No I'm not saying I know a thing about blasting but I'm going to say that the results are already known well ahead of time

French or German?

The Chinese? 😂

Hi! I just wanted you to know that I was the one who reported this video to RU-vid.

Yo how about NOOOO to that damn vaccine weapon

Meh. Called a rocket engine a bomb.

Why does the narrator not know how to pronounce "granite"? This ( in contast to the otherwise excellent video ) indictates poor post-production. Granite is "Gran-it", not "Gran-ite".

Within 5 minutes this documentary is full of B.S. so topped watching it as it is crap.

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2130">35:30</a> I assume, that he just made the invention for Revelation 13 "16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."