Well UW, heat is one element required, but sudden pressure is the other.
That is unless he was planning on stomping his foot down after he managed to like that C-4(?) on fire.
i was serious sometime back when i said i am an explosive and demolitions expert with years and years of experience. my first 5 years on A teams was as a demo man. in my day, i attended EVERY demo school. i continued to use demo extensively on operations after i was commissioned.
you can cannot cause C4 to explode by stepping on it...whether it is cold, hot, or burning makes no difference.
the little mortar round accelerants are a form of explosive...but a relatively low order explosive compared to C4...i would not want to be around a burning truckful, but using a few to heat coffee is no more dangerous than burning C4. similarly you cannot cause these to explode by stepping on them. if that were true every 11C who ever served in a mortar pit would have lost a leg as they often fall off a round burning as it leaves the tube.
i have burned the little accelerants too..and had a couple hop around a bit...but i managed to heat my coffee...no problem.
Obviously this guy didn't really know what he was doing if he didn't have a blasting cap or some kind of bursting charge to set off the C-4. The Det cord wouldn't suffice alone unless he had something to cause it to ignite.
detcord is not ignited...if heated, like nearly all high explosives, it will ignite and burn, but not explode...detcord contains PETN, the same explosive found in many blasting caps...but detcord does not contain the inflammables and in between explosive chemicals to create an explosive chain reaction found in blasting caps.
detcord like dynamite, TNT, RDX, C4, etc., requires a blasting cap or an explosive shock wave from some other explosive.
i too have been told that large quantities of C4 placed under extreme pressure might detonate...but, in the 40 years C4 has been around, i have never seen nor heard of it ever happening and i do not believe it is or was true.
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