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[Star Wars] How is some blaster fire explosive? Such as tanks and cannons.
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Blaster fire is actually highly energized tibana gas. It is a "piece" of plasma fired. The reason it is explosive is because it holds such high energy that is held together until it impacts. You also see the fire from hand held blasters explode (just on a smaller scale). As soon as it impacts it loses its "form" and spreads out. It also drastically heats up the area of impact which, depending on the property of what it hits can cause explosions.

**EDIT:** Obviously the shots fired from a tank holds significantly more energy than one fired from a pistol or rifle which logically makes a bigger explosion due to a higherenergy transfer to the area of impact.