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Combustion that stopped asking permission and started demanding results.
means A violent, near-instantaneous explosion caused by a shockwave slamming through a substance faster than it can calmly burn.
from From French détoner, from Latin detonare — 'de-' (down, away) plus 'tonare' (to thunder). So literally 'to thunder off' — the same root that gives us 'astonish,' which once meant to be struck as if by thunder. The word walked in on the back of actual sky-thunder and never left.
- speed
- shockwave outruns the flame itself
- vs deflagration
- the slow, polite version that burns, not explodes
- engine version
- knocking caused by fuel igniting too early
- etymology
- from latin for thunder, roughly