Is M-80 really 1/4 TNT

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Yep to your question, and nope to the subject title question.

An M-80 is the military version of a "beefed-up" but otherwise ordinary
flash cracker.

It comes nothing close to being the equivalent of any amount of TNT.

Lloyd

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Am I late to the party?

Yep to your question, and nope to the subject title question.
An M-80 is the military version of a "beefed-up" but otherwise ordinary
flash cracker.
It comes nothing close to being the equivalent of any amount of TNT.
Lloyd

He's a troll Lloyd.
1/4 what? 1/4 gram?

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Am I late to the party?

Yep to your question, and nope to the subject title question.
An M-80 is the military version of a "beefed-up" but otherwise ordinary
flash cracker.
It comes nothing close to being the equivalent of any amount of TNT.
Lloyd

He's a troll Lloyd.
1/4 what? 1/4 gram?

Yeah, I know, but I just HAD to answer, because there are 'newbies' who
might not know the difference.

Lloyd

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SI unit of work or energy the Joule is also French and not pronounced Jowel


Got that backward! It is not pronounced Jewel,
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the original border line suicidal potassium perchorate/sulphur/antimony trisulphide/aluminium mixture.

Huh. That's what Charlie Hill sieved a lb. of right in front of us to blow up the "outhouse" (or "office") at FFA in 1993. Maybe not the same proportions.

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the original border line suicidal potassium perchorate/sulphur/antimony trisulphide/aluminium mixture.

Huh. That's what Charlie Hill sieved a lb. of right in front of us to blow up the "outhouse" (or "office") at FFA in 1993. Maybe not the same proportions.

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Can't answer to that, however, I posit it is "better than
Dr. Shimizu Thunder #3.

[Mike]

Is an M-80 really equivalent to a quarter stick of dynamite? What does the
degnisation "M-80" stand for? Anyway, not being an explosives expert and
with all of this dangerous fireworks hipe from the media, I am just curious.
-Thanks, Tim

I heard the 1/4 stick of "dynamite" when I was about 10 (1966) years old. It's something that was passed down for decades and I suspect long before I heard the myth. The 1/4 was meant to suggest it had 1 fourth the power of a stick of dynamite.

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If one goes to the B.A.T.F website,it will tell you the strength of various kinds of firecrackers.

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M80s only contain about 3 to 5 grams of flash powder equivalent to a cherry bomb. 1/4 sticks are called M1000s with
about 25 to 28 grams of flash powder based on its strength compared to dynamite and NOT TNT.