Ron May wrote:
>
> In a message dated 1/28/01 11:05:24 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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> << set it in the open and put a match to it.  It was still viable.  Don't you
> just love the job we have!!!!!!
>    ----- Original Message -----  >>
> Did it go BOOM?
Of course it didn't go BOOM. Blasting powder, like most of the old black
powders, has to be under compression to explode. It may well have flared
up quite nicely but that would have been all. Been watching to many
movies!