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• Footage courtesy: Stuart de Haro (@StuartdeHaro) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV7HrJB2Qkk

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00:00A SpaceX Merlin engine explodes violently when liquid oxygen violently rips through the turbo pump.
00:06How does spinning metal survive pressures that instantly vaporize normal steel into white-hot glowing gas?
00:13Common sense blames massive mechanical overload, but the real killer is a single microscopic metal speck.
00:20Cavitation collapses vapor bubbles so hard they melt titanium instantly, triggering explosive pure oxygen combustion.
00:27That tiny spark ignites the chamber, proving a SpaceX Merlin engine explodes violently when...
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