What is ammonium nitrate, the chemical that exploded in Beirut?

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Lebanon's prime minister said the blast was caused by around 2,700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored near the city’s cargo port.

The Lebanese capital Beirut was rocked on Tuesday evening local time by an explosion that has killed at least 78 people and injured thousands more.

For an industrial ammonium nitrate disaster to occur, a lot needs to go wrong. Tragically, this seems to have been the case in Beirut.Instead, it acts as a source of oxygen that can accelerate the combustion of other materials. Ammonium nitrate decomposition can be set off if an explosion occurs where it’s stored, if there is an intense fire nearby. The latter is what happened in the 2015 Tianjin explosion, which killed 173 people after flammable chemicals and ammonium nitrate were stored together at a chemicals factory in eastern China.

 

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Look at THIS baitey article lol! You know what it is? Safe. Safe unless you (let me bring this right down for SBS) ....... Store the bang-stuff next to the angry stuff WITH the flame stuff IN it. 🤦‍♂️

SBS Only a fraction of what is stored at Orica, Kuragang Island near Newcastle.

Started by Islamic State? Or Jewish State? Or Christian State?

And yet there are countless video's of a plane firing an object and speeding off as the objects turns into that 'odd' swirling blast. I really don't know why people bother with the media in this day and age, it's all official lies and war propaganda.

He steels money from his people’s bank accounts. Literally empty’s their accounts. Nothing could be true that comes from his mouth

bsadams25 How much of Newcastle would be destroyed if their facility popped? And what of storages in other places? Why isn’t there a buffer zone of emptiness equal to 1.5xblast radius?

Newcastle NSW has more stored in one area right in town😥

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