TESTING OF BOMB
REACTION ON WATER TERRIBLE POSSIBILITY EXPLOSION OF OCEAN (Rev. 9.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Mar. 28. The possibility that the Pacific Ocean, or part of it, might explode in the atomic bomb tests was discussed privately at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The conclusion reached was that reaction of water exploding might begin, but would not continue. It was reported that an explosion under water would change the water into hydrogen and oxygen, which would commence a chain of reaction in which the atomic explosion would spread in • the water itself.
Because of the bomb’s intense heat, scientists believe there will be some conversion of, this sort. Furthermore, the hydrogen is likely to explode because of the large amount of oxygen created with it, but it is unlikely to continue because when hydrogen explodes it does not create sufficient heat to go on converting water into hydrogen and oxygen.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26115, 30 March 1946, Page 7
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