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When they started talking about ammonium nitrate, my first thought was of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion https://en.wiki
by emeraldd 6y ago
When they started talking about ammonium nitrate, my first thought was of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Fertilizer_Company_explos...
and the possibility of a shipment of fertilizer somehow getting caught in a fire ...
- azepoi 6y agoToulouse AZF comes to mind List of Ammonium nitrate disasters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters
- coldcode 6y agoWhen I first saw the initial video, I immediately assumed a nitrate explosion. A bomb that large would be too hard to place or even deliver (if a plane), and fireworks would not explode with a such a perfect shockwave. The red color of the original smoke is rather telling as well and that it occurred in a dockyard.