"230 tons of TNT"

I hate units of TNT. Ill do psi. Love the foot. The calorie is metric! But what on planet earth is "ton of TNT"?

The energy that was dissipated (using 0.5 mv^2) was 1TJ, or the 280 000 kWh.

It's the most common unit for describing the explosive yield of a nuclear weapon. So, it's a lot smaller than the bombs dropped on Japan in WWII, but a lot bigger than a Davy Crockett. That's a sort-of-useful frame of reference.

The only other things I can think of that would create a similar kind of blast are a volcanic eruption or something like that fertilizer explosion in Beirut in 2020 (~1100 tons TNT equivalent.)

	▲	jazzyjackson 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Plus any kids that played with firecrackers has a visceral sense of how much power is in fractions of a stick of dynamite

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keyle 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

TNT explosion unit is ACME friendly!... meep meep!

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NooneAtAll3 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent

	▲	tomjakubowski 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		From now on I will use the gigacalorie for this kind of thing.

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protocolture 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They probably need an "Equivalent football field lengths of burgers eliminated" to assist certain countries.