• Question: what would happen if someone hides a stick of dynamite in a banana?

    Asked by kittenfudge01 to Antoine on 12 Nov 2013.
    • Photo: Antoine Buchard

      Antoine Buchard answered on 12 Nov 2013:


      Hi kittenfudge01!
      I don’t think anything will happen really. Dynamite is a strong explosive, but its quite stable, so that its explosion needs to be triggered by something more sensitive, for example some ignited gunpowder.
      So if someone was to bite into the banana/dynamite stick, unless it has a really powerful jaw, nothing would happpen because the shock will be to small to trigger the dynamite explosion.
      If it’s old dynamite though, it’s more dangerous as it’s more sensitive to shocks.
      Cheers!

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