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Old 02-06-2014, 03:43 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by johndallman View Post
A pressure cooker explosion is not much like a grenade explosion. The lid of the cooker yields and comes off, releasing the pressure. You don't get the shattering effect of an explosive, so you don't get lots of small fragments moving at high speed, which are what do the damage of a grenade.
As xkcd told it, it isn't usually much more than opening a shaken up can of soda. Well, opening a can of soda hot enough to cause severe burns.
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