In this BBC featurette, you’ll see that hitting nitroglycerin “with a hammer is enough to cause this sensitive high explosive to detonate – creating a supersonic shockwave and a flash of light that is almost too fast to film, even with the latest specialist cameras.” Continue reading for the video.

[via Gizmodo]

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