Dust Explosion Demonstration

Aug 20, 2012

The Mill City Museum in Minneapolis, Minn., offers a flour explosion demonstration to give visitors an idea of how dangerous flour dust can be. The museum guide says that these explosions happen "very suddenly, very unexpectedly, and are over in an instant."

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