Originally posted by -ammo-
hmm, I recieved 3 years of training on the care, maintenance and use of explosives and never heard that.
Be advised that firewood would be a better substitute for fuel for your campfre or your stove. That is by chance that you had spare TNT laying around. Dont let the police or FBI know you have it. If you happen to have a license, then better to use it for what it was intended.
I served 2 years in the Soviet Army in the early 80s. As it commonly happened I received no traning in explosives and most other fields that I actually had to use in practice. Live and learn.
When you are freezing your bellybutton off in the mountains above the treeline or in some other such G-d forsaken barren place, the TNT melted from the scavenged or unexploded ammo or from the ground mines may be the only fuel available. Of course some ammo uses other stuff then TNT or TNT mixed with something else - so you better let someone else experiment with that.
TNT easily ignited by a match and burned evenly. I have never heard it detonate in such use.
Alternatively we burned the "gun powder" from the cannon shells - it looks like yellow spahetti and burns slowly (if lit in open space).
Tumor: Didya know that the coffee creamer in MRE's burns with about the same intensity as gunpowder? Gunpowder and high explosives are much inferior to plain coal if you compare energy content/density. The issue is how rapidly that energy can be released.
miko
