AN just needs to get hot enough to go boom. Catching fire will set it off.
Check out the 1947 Texas City Disaster.
“AN just needs to get hot enough to go boom. Catching fire will set it off.”
nope.
“Check out the 1947 Texas City Disaster.”
i did, and here’s what wiki stated about the fertilizer that exploded:
“It was manufactured in a patented process, mixed with clay, petrolatum, rosin and paraffin wax to avoid moisture caking.”
in other words, it was ANFO ... not just plain ammonium nitrate ...