Texas A&M opens world’s largest academic controlled-explosions lab (IMAGE)

Texas A&M University

Texas A&M opens world’s largest academic controlled-explosions lab

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Texas A&M University’s Detonation Research Test Facility is a nearly 500-foot detonation tube more than 6 feet in diameter, built with three-quarter-inch-thick steel walls and paired with a 90-meter earth-covered muffler.

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Texas A&M University College of Engineering

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