Well to destroy the Earth and it's gravitational binds would take 7 Exatons of TNT, the Moon is roughly 25% of Earth's size. It's also not so simple, you have to take the planets and Moon mass into acount.
Not to be confused with a supernova - [See related]In a few hundred days a nova pumps out as much energy as the sun does for more than a million years.The Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima exploded with an energy of about 15 kilotons of TNT (~6 × 1013 joules)During the Cold War, the United States developed hydrogen bombs with a maximum theoretical yield of 25 megatons (~1015 Joules)A nova releases as much energy as the Sun emits in a million years or 1034 jouleswhich is about ten quintillion megatons of TNT (~1018 joules)So you'd need about 17,000 of the most powerful hydrogen bombs to equal a nova.
Notice that detonating explosives like TNT and C-4 DO NOT require oxygen or any other outside reagent, so they can explode under water or in outer space.
The biggest nuclear explosion in history was a 50 megaton (equivalent to 50 million tons of tnt) bomb tested by the soviet union called the "Tsar Bomb". nobody was killed in the blast. the previous answer was completely false, Chernobyl was one of the smallest nuclear explosions in history, smaller than the Hiroshima bomb, which was only 17 kilotons (17 thousand tons of tnt, almost 3000 times smaller than the Tsar Bomb). People were mainly killed by the radiation. The blast didn't even kill everybody inside the actual plant (I'm not sure how many were killed in the blast, if somebody would like to add to this)
Is is used to keep track of very large or very small numbers. For instance pH of an acid refers to the -log of the H+ concentration. Each time pH increases by one the actual concentration increases by a factor of ten. Many time you are dealing with very small number such as 1.76 x 10-5. If you take the negative log of this number then you get a pH of about 4.75. Logs are also used in the Richter Scale, Stellar Brightness, and the Decibel scale for the same reasons. An earthquake with an intensity of 1 on the Richter scale has the approximate energy of 6oz of TNT. An earthquake with a magnitude of 8 is about the same amount of energy as 6 MILLION tons of TNT.
Stars fuse Hydrogen into heavier elements (main sequence stars fuse hydrogen into helium). If you were to weigh the mass of the hydrogen before the fusion process and the mass of the helium which is the result of the helium process then you would find the the helium has less mass than the hydrogen. This lost mass is converted into energy (heat and light) in the core of the star in line with Einstein's famous equation E-MC2, where E= the energy that comes out and M= the mass lost and C2 is the speed of light in a vacuum (299,792,458 metres per second,) multiplied by itself. Our sun loses mass a the rate of 4.26 million metric tons per second so if you multiply this by C2 you can see just how much energy the sun is producing each second. (384.6 yotta watts (3.846×1026 W), or 9.192×1010 megatons of TNT per second).
Nope.
It may take a thousand of tons on TNT to pack a nuclear bomb. But to destroy the earth, it may take billions to trillions tons of TNT plus a nuclear igniter to blow the earth to bits of dust.
You Need to use an torch then right click the TNT
Yes it can. TNT can destroy any block except air, water, lava and bedrock with the exception of in multiplayer when numerous other custom protected/added blocks are introduced, and in mods when a block is not programmed with the value.
500 tons of TNT could potentially destroy a large building, cause significant damage to a small neighborhood, or create a crater several meters deep, depending on how it is detonated and other surrounding factors.
If TNT explodes while in water it will not destroy blocks but will damage any mobs (players, animal or monsters) in the blast radius.
No. Any explosions, no matter TNT or creeper, can destroy obsidian
you need to be in multi-player or a server to make the TNT work.
You need four sand and five gunpowder arranged like this: GSG SGS GSG
In order to destroy bedrock in Minecraft, either the super pick-axe command or TNT can be used. These are the only two options without cheats.
One thing that you can do in Worldcraft Survivor is to make TNT. In order to make TNT in the game, you need to build things. The game is all about building you own city and universe.
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