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by adhesive_wombat 966 days ago
Technically a deflagration is also an explosion, it's just subsonic, whereas detonation is supersonic. Plenty of explosives don't detonate: they're called "low explosives" and gunpowder is an example, as well as normal petrol-air mixtures.
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I stand corrected! I’ll file this one away.

To parent who I erroneously told to tune his engine: my mistake!