Out of curiosity and totally unrelated, is it even possible to make munitions out of tea? Like, can you compress it into a sphere and fire it from a 17th century cannon, or would you just wind up with a bang and dense mist of tea?
I think it would be easier to compress it to the shape of cylinder, not sphere, and technically you can shoot it, but it will will dissembody during the shooting, like projectiles in the shooting, so the tea will travel a cone in space and probably do not much harm because of small weight of the particles.
Out of curiosity and totally unrelated, is it even possible to make munitions out of tea? Like, can you compress it into a sphere and fire it from a 17th century cannon, or would you just wind up with a bang and dense mist of tea?
This got me wondering.
I would be shocked if someone, probably British, had not fired tea from ship cannon at some point or another during the tea trade
Sounds like a question for the hydraulic press guy. See if tea compresses.
I think it would, but I also think it may just create a blockage that makes the cannon sort of explode, hurting anyone nearby?
Tea, regardless of how compressed, would be weaker than the wall of the cannon. So it would be a mist of tea leaves.
Man I wish Mythbusters was still around
I think it would be easier to compress it to the shape of cylinder, not sphere, and technically you can shoot it, but it will will dissembody during the shooting, like projectiles in the shooting, so the tea will travel a cone in space and probably do not much harm because of small weight of the particles.