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| Jul 16 at 3:20 | comment | added | david | The explosion creates a gas plasma. The ionized gasses are so energetic that you get visible electromagnetic radiation, aka 'flames'. Ions can be constrained by magnetic fields: that is the basis of magnetic containment of fusion reactions. Magnetic containment of fusion is not a solved problem, and massive superconductor containment systems are not a useful system for guns | |
| Jul 15 at 20:44 | history | answered | Tiger Guy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |