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To: BenLurkin

Anything that starts with “ammo” could be bad.


2 posted on 08/05/2020 4:22:20 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Prediction: G. Maxwell will surprise everyone by not dying anytime soon.)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Pipeline people get especially nervous when we are near an ammonia pipeline with heavy equipment

BIG bada boom if you light one up


3 posted on 08/05/2020 4:33:35 PM PDT by digger48
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To: SaxxonWoods

Such an explosion has happened before. A boatload of Ammonium Nitrate aboard a ship in the harbor in Galveston, Texas (April 16, 1947), also blew up, destroying a large part of the wharf and some nearby ships. It was probably the first time such a huge explosion was attributed to NH4NO3 (the chemical formula of Ammonium Nitrate), but its capability as a fast-reacting chemical was already known, as this is an ammonium analog to both saltpeter (used in early gunpowder) and potassium nitrate which is the ingredient in most modern “smokeless” gunpowders.


9 posted on 08/05/2020 4:42:22 PM PDT by alloysteel (Freedom is not a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that..)
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To: SaxxonWoods

i always heard that diesel fuel and ammonium nitrate together are like nitroglycerin- very touchy.


15 posted on 08/05/2020 4:59:29 PM PDT by arthurus (bhu v f n)
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