I am somewhat confused. Ammonia Nitrate is an explosive chemical particularly in a confined space where temperatures and pressures can get to a critical level of explosive detonation via the shock wave through the mass of Nitrates.
You can take a pile of this stuff and drop it on the ground and drop matches into it and nothing will happen.
I am confused.
I keep hearing so many variations of how dangerous Ammonium Nitrate is. I know it can be made into an explosive and huge amounts have destroyed cities before.
Daddy was in the Combat Engineers in WWII. He said that TNT was very safe to handle. Just how safe can TNT be?