Posted by YoelT
all the more exciting!
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True, with a blast wave propagating @21000+ fps you'll never even see it.
In NY a contractor working on dismantling an ordinance manufacturing site decided to save the maple (?) hard wood slats that lined a tank. They hauled them off and stack them for future use. A few days later they spontaneously ignited.
They had been used to line tanks and for piping picric acid owing to the fact the wood is non-reactive to it.
However it does absorb it... They were lucky it burned rather than detonated.
Don't put to much faith in the remediation teams...