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To: C19fan

CNN reports it was 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate. Let’s say AN and TNT are equivalent in energy/weight (they aren’t). So 2750 metric tons is 2.750 kilotons.


7 posted on 08/05/2020 12:42:33 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar

AN by itself has an r value of about .9 ( TNT=1.0).

So if we assume that some decomposed iot create a
deflagration situation, assume 2.5 MT of AN at .9 would equate to around 2.2 kt yeild.

Of course, perhaps after 6 years of poor storage much more may have been contaminated etc.


21 posted on 08/05/2020 1:18:03 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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