Depth charges are usually set of go off at a specific depth if I recall. If the outside pressure is not high enough, no boom (or the magnetic sensor doesn't go off by being close to the metal submarine for later versions). Dropping one shouldn't set it off if I remember correctly.
Depth charges are usually set of go off at a specific depth if I recall. If the outside pressure is not high enough, no boom (or the magnetic sensor doesn't go off by being close to the metal submarine for later versions). Dropping one shouldn't set it off if I remember correctly.
Depth charges are usually set of go off at a specific depth if I recall. If the outside pressure is not high enough, no boom (or the magnetic sensor doesn't go off by being close to the metal submarine for later versions). Dropping one shouldn't set it off if I remember correctly.
Might want to tell that to Teruzuki. Then again, hers was set off because of a fire.
Giving it a quick Googling, Japanese depth charges were apparently packed with picric acid. Picric acid was the first explosive considered stable enough to actually use for the warheads of artillery shells, since the likes of nitroglycerine would simply explode in the barrel if it was subject to the shock of being fired, however, it was replaced by the likes of TNT after TNT was discovered because TNT was much safer to handle. The Hallifax Explosion, apparently, the largest man-made explosion prior to the invention of nuclear weapons, was caused when a cargo vessel carrying many tons of picric acid bumped another cargo vessel at a speed of one knot.
I was just trying to browse Danbooru and instead spent an hour reading up on the chemistry of various explosive compounds, followed by the Halifax Explosion (which I had never actually heard about before). Thanks Wikipedia!
Giving it a quick Googling, Japanese depth charges were apparently packed with picric acid. Picric acid was the first explosive considered stable enough to actually use for the warheads of artillery shells, since the likes of nitroglycerine would simply explode in the barrel if it was subject to the shock of being fired, however, it was replaced by the likes of TNT after TNT was discovered because TNT was much safer to handle. The Hallifax Explosion, apparently, the largest man-made explosion prior to the invention of nuclear weapons, was caused when a cargo vessel carrying many tons of picric acid bumped another cargo vessel at a speed of one knot.
... So, yeah, Shiranui has reason to worry.
Oh fuck, not that thing.
We use that in the labs for a few characterization reactions for certain organic compounds, as a fixative in the biological department, and as an etchant sometimes (material science), because the fucking school is too cheap to buy safer alternatives.
And this is something the students are expected to use in one or two experiments. Granted, it should be safe when wet, but sometimes the fucking thing recrystallizes in the container and we'll have to dispose of the whole thing.
(Supervisor: Justify the purchase of more expensive reagents. Me: It's fucking explosive, that's why! [paraphased] Supervisor: Just store it under water, mm'kay? Me: And what if it recrystallizes around the cap? Supervisor: Use it up faster before that happens?)
That's dangerous, so could you please stop it?Huh, it's fine.AH!?Hya! That was close!That's why I told you it was dangerous, right?It's not like I'd let it drop down...This helped me cooling off...I'm kinda startled!Told you so.Eh...!?
She's gone!!Sorry, sorry...
