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To: conservativefromGa; All

No word yet on the cause. Does anyone know if atmospheric sugar powder can explode in same way that dust in textile factories can explode.


38 posted on 02/07/2008 10:40:24 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
Got this from googling, sounds like it could have been.

"As far as we know, it was a sugar dust explosion," Imperial Sugar CEO John Sheptor said. The blast happened in a silo where refined sugar is stored until it is packaged, he said.

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39 posted on 02/07/2008 10:51:14 PM PST by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: gleeaikin

I thought sugar needed nitrate added in order to be explosive.

Obviously I don’t know...


41 posted on 02/08/2008 12:09:31 AM PST by DB
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