Timeline for What is the name of the temperature limit beyond which an explosion will form a mushroom cloud?
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| Nov 25, 2013 at 21:02 | answer | added | tpg2114 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 25, 2013 at 19:44 | comment | added | tpg2114 | I would agree with @dmckee, it should be more about energy deposition. Which if people make some assumptions (calorically perfect air for example, which is an okay assumption when $T$ is really high since all energy modes are populated, provided one picks a $c_v$ that is appropriate) then it could be correlated to a temperature since $T = e_{int}/c_v$. So it's possible there is a critical temperature, but it's more likely due to an assumption that related critical energy deposition to a temperature. | |
| Nov 25, 2013 at 19:37 | history | edited | Michael | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 25, 2013 at 17:19 | comment | added | user10851 | I could believe the critical parameter could be described in a number of ways, and you can switch amongst them using assumed parameters for your particular situation (density of your medium, value of $g$, etc.). | |
| Nov 25, 2013 at 17:06 | comment | added | Michael | So was the limit whose name escapes me bogus then? Or am I misremembering what the critical parameter was? | |
| Nov 25, 2013 at 17:02 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | I am not at all certain that temperature the the right metric; I would expect the critical quantity to be energy (assuming a point-like source on the scale of mushroom cloud formation). | |
| Nov 25, 2013 at 16:41 | history | asked | Michael | CC BY-SA 3.0 |