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Original communication| Volume 20, ISSUE 4, PIN7, October 1946

Air blast effect in a cave

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      Abstract

      Goats in a cave and in the open were exposed in identical positions to the detonation of twenty-five pounds of T.N.T. The results indicated that the blast effect of high explosives in closed spaces exceeds that in the open.
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