FILE PHOTO: Bags containing ammonium nitrate fertilizer are dispalyed in an agricultural trader in Vieillevigne, France, October 7, 2016. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe* Ammonium nitrate is an industrial chemical commonly used in fertilisers and as an explosive for quarrying and mining. It is considered relatively safe if uncontaminated and stored properly. But it is extremely dangerous if contaminated, mixed with fuel or stored unsafely.
* Experts have noted the colour of the smoke and “mushroom cloud” seen in footage of Tuesday’s blast as characteristic of ammonium nitrate explosions. * In 1921, an explosion of ammonium sulphate and nitrate fertiliser at the Oppau plant in Germany killed 565 people. * Ammonium nitrate stored at a Texas fertiliser plant detonated in an explosion that killed 14 and injured about 200 in 2013.
A favourite with the IRA, who killed scores, possibly hundreds of men, women and children with it.
It blew up the courthouse in Oklahoma City. Doesn’t anyone remember this?
I was in Beirut before the Marine barracks bombiing. No fresh water, no electricity, only camp fires for heat. It was really destroyed city. The old MOB on the US Navy ship that I was on said he had been there in “63”, said it was the jewel of the Mideast at that time.
All the farmers use it
Fertilizer
The same substance used in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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