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- From: chuck@eng.umd.edu (Chuck Harris - WA3UQV)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: shooting under water?
- Message-ID: <1jmv49INN3r2@mojo.eng.umd.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 04:02:22 GMT
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- Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Electrical Engineering
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- In article <1993Jan20.204947.2230@igor.tamri.com> donb@igor.tamri.com (Don Baldwin) writes:
- #Hmm. I also wonder about the pressure aspects of firing a gun in space.
- #Here on Earth (or is this Mars?), the outside of a gun barrel is being
- #experiencing the pressure of 14.7 pounds per square inch. Without that
- #outside pressure, is it possible that a gun firing a maximum load in space
- #would burst?
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- Chamber pressures in long rifles are generally greater than 40,000PSI. Another
- 15PSI (which would exist if the inside of the cartridge was at atmospheric
- pressure) would never even be noticed. (for that matter, probably couldn't
- be measured!)
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- Chuck Harris - WA3UQV
- chuck@eng.umd.edu
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