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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER
These compounds have to be made.I understand about just watering a tree gets you various fruit etc.(because the sun is providing the energy,and the sun is free energy.)The sun doesn't make these explosives.Are you saying the chemicals used to make these explosives are energy rich compounds that the sun etc. helped make(or these substances occur naturally,and that's why we don't have to use a ton of energy to get a ton of energy..from a bomb.)
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Every atom in your body has the potential of releasing an enormous amount of energy. Every atom in the universe does. When the universe first formed there was a certain amount of total energy. It remains the same.
The only problem is how do we release this energy within the atom. Its there... "naturally" from the beginning of the universe... actually a little after, when it was cool enough for these atoms to actually form.
Now for compounds ... atoms that are, we will say, stuck (bonded) together.
Bonds are basically energy harnessed in electrons of the compound. Electrons make bonds possible. Electrons exist in compounds at a number of diff energy levels. These compounds were also created "naturally". Again the problem is releasing this bond energy. If we can make the compound a little less stable, by adding some atoms artificially, like the reaction given in the other post, we have essentially moved the boulder (the energy tied up in the chemical bonds) to the edge of the cliff. Just a little push now and bang...
If you need me to explain further I will. Gotta go now.