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To: Nachum

LOL...this is a piddling amt of fertilizer. I suspect the theft is about farming not making bombs. If you’re making a bomb the urea is all thats necessary (aside from some fuel oil) so why steal 3Xs that amt in P and K?


89 posted on 03/02/2009 10:16:03 AM PST by 556x45
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To: 556x45
“If you’re making a bomb the urea is all thats necessary (aside from some fuel oil) “

It's more complicated than that. Urea mixed with fuel oil won't explode. You must get almost an equal weight of other chemicals and do a lot of processing first, then use a detonator-booster system.

And even ammonium nitrate-fuel oil takes a considerable amount of booster explosive to go boom. Insensitive explosives are safer and that's why they are used in industry- it's actually very hard to make them “go”.

108 posted on 03/02/2009 1:42:41 PM PST by DBrow
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