[texas booster]

A large quantity of urea fertilizer and ammonium perchlorate sit in a cargo compartment on board a fishing vessel intercepted by U.S. naval forces while transiting international waters in the Gulf of Oman, Nov. 8. U.S. Navy Photo

Is 46% nitrogen urea truly usable as an explosive?

[Travis McGee]

It’ll work for ANFO, but it’s bulky and low velocity/low brisance.

Useful in some mining applications where cost is more important than speed. It can heave up a big crater, etc.

Not what you would use to cut a steel bridge beam etc. For that, you want something like C-4 formed into a linear shaped charge.

It’ll work for a truck bomb, think OKC. You just need a high velocity kicker charge, such as a stick of dynamite in the middle. Or sticks. It takes a good kick to cause a high-order ANFO detonation, and not just a low-order flash and boom and waste of material.

[FreedomPoster]

I don’t know, but ammonium nitrate fertilizer sure is. Look up the Beirut explosion. It registered as a seismic event.

[Scrambler Bob]

It is even worst that this contains NITROGEN.