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In addition, the more powerful the explosion, the more quickly it uses up or blows apart the reactants involved in any combustion, so there's an inverse relationship between how powerful the blast is and how much fire there is. Film pyrotechnicians favor big fireballs not only because they're more spectacular, but because they're low-powered and thus relatively safe to work with.
Volcanoes are often part of this. The lava is the scariest part shown in fiction (ironically with [[Convection, Schmonvection]] involved), but the lava usually stays in a (relatively) short range around the volcano and most flows are slow enough that they can easily be avoided by appropriately wary individuals. People in Hawaii live around lava spewers. The really devastating effects are the cloud effects such as [
Oh, and fireballs in space. Perhaps some chemical mixtures can make fireballs in a near vacuum, but it's unlikely most space explosions are like that.
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* Demonstrated in an episode of ''[[Myth Busters]]'', where they specifically compared blowing up a car with a Hollywood style explosion, and blowing it up properly. The Hollywood one caused an impressive fireball, and scorched the car while leaving it mostly intact. The proper one blew the car into pieces scattered over a wide radius.
** Of course the proper one ''did'' have a very impressive fireball of its own. You just needed to watch in [[Slow Motion]] to really appreciate it.
** They also tested whether [
*** Because legality is always such a problem for those poor criminal types...
**** Well, to the producers it is...
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