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No not really. You need an explosion or energetic impact to trigger it, and potentially a fire too. But it might become unstable by heat and more so if it's con
by kpil 2y ago
No not really. You need an explosion or energetic impact to trigger it, and potentially a fire too. But it might become unstable by heat and more so if it's contaminated by oil.
One early industrial disaster and the biggest explosion of it's time happened because the workers in a production plant in Germany regularly used Dynamite to clear out stuck ammonium nitrate in silos. The last time they tried, the plant was obliterated together with most of the nearby town.
- gus_massa 2y agoI had to find more details. From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion > Indeed, nothing extraordinary had happened during an estimated 20,000 firings, until the fateful explosion on September 21 [1921].