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To: Oorang
Ammonium nitrate fertilizer needs dynamite or a fire to make it blow not just contact with an electrical line.

Ammonium nitrate is just the oxidizing element. It needs fuel. Standard "gunpowder" employs powdered charcoal. The OKC bombers mixed the ammonium nitrate with diesel fuel oil. Normally the fuel and oxidizer are homogenously combined for optimal results. It is hard to believe that sufficient amounts of separately shipped reagents on individual rail cars mixed correctly by "accident". I suspect high explosives (C4/Semtex/TNT) were purposely loaded on a rail car for the utilitarian purpose of eliminating Kim Jong Il.

The coal cars for my project in Birmingham carry 110 tons of coal each. Replace that with TNT and you get a yield close to what has been reported.

1,139 posted on 04/29/2004 8:41:10 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin
>>>Ammonium nitrate is just the oxidizing element. It needs fuel. Standard "gunpowder" employs powdered charcoal. The OKC bombers mixed the ammonium nitrate with diesel fuel oil.

Yes they did. Probably off topic from your point; but, do you think that was the only explosive that brought the building down? (personally, from your background)
1,148 posted on 04/29/2004 8:59:41 PM PDT by Calpernia (http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)
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To: Myrddin
Exactly. I guess I was too brain dead to post an explanation such as yours (it's been one of those days). The following story of a 1959 explosion in Roseburg, Oregon is a good example of how it can happen.

http://www.mvonline.com/celebrate2000/Focus/where-11.html

A friend's father owned the building supply in Roseburg where the fire started. She was just a baby when in happened but we've heard the family stories.

1,158 posted on 04/29/2004 9:24:10 PM PDT by Oorang ( If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?)
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