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Given how explosive nitrogen compounds are (they all want to turn back into N2 gas, some of them more badly than others), I'm surprised this doesn't happen more
by derleth 14y ago
Given how explosive nitrogen compounds are (they all want to turn back into N2 gas, some of them more badly than others), I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.
- iSnow 14y agoWell they certainly do happen: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppau_explosion - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster Ammonium nitrate is nothing to trifle with: "As all involved died in the explosion, the causes are not clear",