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According to a Wiki page [1], a heavy turbolaser bolt has the explosive power of 250g of TNT. 250g of TNT equals 1046000 joules. [2] The energy required to melt 25g of ice at its freezing point is 8290 joules. [3] So a heavy turbolaser shot could melt 2.5 kg of ice.
     To melt and vaporize iron takes about 7.63 megajoules per kg of iron. [4] So our turbolasers can vaporize roughly 137g of iron per shot.



[1]: https://rodentwarsnet.createaforum.com/new-board-5/imperial-class/
[2]: https://www.justintools.com/unit-conversion/energy.php?k1=grams-of-TNT&k2=joules
[3]: https://www.jiskha.com/questions/1839557/what-is-the-heat-in-joules-required-to-melt-25-grams-of-ice
[4]:

The rock is clearly vaporized. Scaling off the ISD it is at least 0.4 meters in diameter, based on Brian Young's figures. Assuming it's solid iron it has a mass of 503.68 kg and requires
7.63 x 503.68 = 3840 MJ to vaporize. If the vaporization occurs within 1/15 of a second, the power of the bolt is roughly 57600 MW.

Remember that these figures are conservative, and apply only to light turbolasers in a shrunken SW (RW heavy turbos). Some have claimed that the bolts came from heavy turbolasers, by showing that the tiny guns we saw on the Death Star couldn't have fired them. However, those tiny guns are not turbolasers! All bolts actually identified as turbolasers have been several meters wide, as opposed to less than a foot for those guns. They're point-defense guns. The massive turrets on the top of an ISD are heavy turbos. The ones so comparatively small we can't normally see them are light or medium ones.