My impression also ... unless you Are an 'explosives engineer' /also thermodynamicist: you cannot imagine what hapens when 'burning'
becomes Detonation; the little mouse momentarily tears-off a small carbon-flake (firmly attached to some aluminum!), likely at that spot
already? a precursor to a new 'crack' etc.

tl;tl ...how Many? little-bites before Carmageddon happens--in a trice? Roll dem dice -->