Sorry to offer an alternate opinion but the volume a given area of liquid would occupy given it were a gas far exceeds any head space that would be realistic in a pipe bomb normally available to the clandastine. Thus your qustion is irrelevant.
Think 'bomb' does it really matter if a grenade is contained in a grenade twice the size, not really to any practical extent, if we were talking a grenade the size of an automobile then I would start feeling safer if it were to be lobbed towards me (except for the instance if it were to land on me).
Anyway just a rationale counter suggestion, ignore me as you would a dissenting trouble questioner at a scientific forum, that is unless it happens to make sense to your logic
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