Christian J I hate to tell you but your definition is in accurate.
”There is a definite difference between an "explosion" and the ignition of a large amount of spilling fuel in a short time, resulting in a huge fireball.
Definitions found on the Web:
An explosion is a sudden increase in volume and release of energy in a violent manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases. An explosion causes pressure waves in the local medium in which it occurs. Explosions are categorized as deflagrations if these waves are subsonic and detonations if they are supersonic (shock waves).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion
The sudden release or creation of pressure and generation of high temperature as a result of a rapid change in chemical state (usually burning), or a mechanical failure.
lnglicensing.conocophillips.com/about/glossary/
A very rapid combustion of a substance using its own oxygen supply. Initiated by ignition.
riv.co.nz/rnza/hist/terms.htm
If you look at all the definitions you have a sudden release or increase in volume of energy in a violent manner that is ignited. Sorry your ignition verses explosion does not hold water. A sudden ignition of spilling fuel in a short time that creates a sudden release and expansion of energy (and temperature) is EXACTLY what you had. That is the definition of an explosion.
Now if you look at what the author said. There was an explosion under the wing… If anyone saw the footage they could not disagree. There was a sudden increase in VOLUME and RELEASE of ENERGY that was caused by an IGNITION source in a SHORT TIME.
What the article said was the cause however, was an “ ..electrical short…in a fuel vapor environment…” nothing about an explosion other than under the wing and minuscule semantics is irrelevant.
http://japan.suite101.com/article.cf...possible_cause
You can argue about your definition of what is an explosion but it makes no difference. It does not have to be a nuclear bomb to be an explosion. A jet engine has hundreds of explosions a minute. A test: “He theorized the rearward-channeled
explosion based on his third law of motion?” Isaac Newton found at NASA
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:0...lnk&cd=1&gl=ae
Burners and Out!