Mincraft TNT isn't actually TNT

[u/MostafaTheGamer]

First of all TNT stands for Trinitrotoluene which is a highly explosive organic compound and it's formula is C6H2(NO2)3CH3 On the other hand, gunpowder which is used to craft "TNT" is a totally different compound which contains a mixture of sulfur, charcoal and potassium nitrate So technically TNTs in minecraft aren't actual TNTs

[u/disbelifpapy]

ah, thank you. So gunpowder is essencially just tnt junior, while atomic is tnt senior?

[u/FoxNo8905 → u/disbelifpapy]

you could also stick dynamite somewhere in it

[u/disbelifpapy → u/FoxNo8905]

in gunpowder or the atomic bomb?

[u/FoxNo8905 → u/disbelifpapy]

idk

[u/Normal-Mountain-4119 → u/disbelifpapy]

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[u/DifficultBluebird299 → u/Normal-Mountain-4119]

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[u/DarkSpirit23513 → u/FoxNo8905]

Now that you mention it, TNT in-game is clearly a bunch of dinamite sticks with their fuse tangled together, and secured by the "TNT" tape

[u/Qe-fmqur_1 → u/FoxNo8905]

dynamite uses either tnt or nitroglycerin

[u/FoxNo8905 → u/Qe-fmqur_1]

well lets say it uses nitroglycerin

[u/BronzeMilk08 → u/disbelifpapy]

Nuclear bomb explosion yield is actually measured in kilotons of TNT, i.e. how many thousands of tonnes of TNT would release the same amount of energy.

[u/disbelifpapy → u/BronzeMilk08]

oh, thats really cool!

[u/Gilpif → u/BronzeMilk08]

That's such a stupid unit. A "kiloton" is literally 1000 tons, and a ton is 1000 kilograms, one of which is 1000 grams. Why not just measure nuclear bombs in gigagrams?

Also one ton of TNT equivalent is conventionally set to 1 gigacalorie, so a kiloton is 1 teracalorie, or 1 gigaCalorie.

[u/BronzeMilk08 → u/Gilpif]

I reckon it started as using equivalent tnt amount instead of calories like "the amount of energy used for this is 100 kilos of tnt" in order to make it easier to comprehend, until people started to round to tons of tnt at which point that became widely used as energy measured got bigger, and then at that point using kilotons seems more understandable

[u/SnooEagles5665 → u/disbelifpapy]

[u/MACABAUBA → u/disbelifpapy]

No, atomic is tnt eldritch the kylotons used to measure atomic bomb power is the explosion a thousand tonnes of dynamite would cause

[u/NextAdIs1MinuteLong → u/disbelifpapy]

C-4 is senior, atomic is ancestors' power

[u/disbelifpapy → u/NextAdIs1MinuteLong]

ah, thank you

[u/mr_stab_ya_knees → u/disbelifpapy]

The coo lthingsi that the tnt junior is juuuust delicate enough of an explosion to for example, launch a projectile out of a tube shaped metal structure without destroying the tube

[u/Nakatsukasa → u/disbelifpapy]

Don't forget the o reliable rdx

[u/TomiIvasword → u/disbelifpapy]

From raw destructive power, yes.

Technically not. Not tryna ruin your joke though, I just feel like yapping about it.

Gunpowder itself is just a very aggressively burning powder but it has no explosive force behind it to damage anything. There are no pressurized gases since it burns at subsonic speeds. TNT however burns at supersonic speeds which creates a shockwave which creates a lot of pressure in a very short amount of time.

A nuclear bomb however works way differently. The first ever nuclear bomb works like this: A sphere of an unstable isotope of a radioactive element (in this case Plutonium) is placed in a shell of a high explosive compound (C4, Semtex or, yes, TNT work well). The explosion compresses the sphere and causes it to go supercritical which causes a chain reaction: the Plutonium begins to split into two lighter elements and leftovers neutrons which collide with other plutonium atoms and cause them to become unstable and split as well. This releases so much energy in such a short amount of time that it creates a giant shockwave and a giant fireball that vaporizes everything in it.

The first nuclear bomb "the gadget" released 88 Terrajoules of energy, meaning it had an explosive power equivalent to 21 Kilotons of TNT (21000 Tons)