What is ammonium nitrate, chemical in deadly Beirut explosion?

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What is ammonium nitrate, the chemical in the deadly Beirut explosion?

Then there are additional regulations from DHS, the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards, which applies to hundreds of chemicals that could be misused under the context of terrorism, he said.

“If you’re doing mining of any type, you’re going to be using this material to make your explosive,” she said. The chemical has been involved both in terror attacks and in accidents leading to hundreds of deaths in the past.In 1947, at least 581 people were killed when more than 2,000 tons of the chemical exploded on a cargo ship that had docked at a port in Texas City, Texas.

Timothy McVeigh used two tons of ammonium nitrate to bomb a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, leading to the deaths of 168 people. It was also used in a 1970 bombing on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus that led to one death and several injuries.

 

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You also had to add a fuel to the fertilizer to make it to your mom. In Oklahoma City I think the fuel was diesel fuel then all you need is a good spark

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Ammonium nitrate is a chemical that can be used as an explosive and as a fertilizer. That’s why another form of fertilizer, diamonium phosphate, has become farmers favorite form of fertilizers.

Ammonium nitrate was the substance that Renegade / Lorenzo Lamas found which the domestic terrorists / organic farmers were storing. — They’re organic! They don’t need fertilizer!

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Fertilizer. Mentos are just candy unless you put them in a bottle of coke.

Fertilizer

Hezbollah bought the ammonium nitrate and storage it at the port . Hezbollah is terrorist organization

I'm old enough to remember the Oklahoma City bombing, so I know what it is and what it can do. My heart still breaks remembering those precious babies.

It probably wasn't actually ammonium nitrate.

Did you tools not learn this after Oklahoma City?

What keeps the bad guys from using this idea now to float a barge up the East River or next to an aircraft carrier or naval base? Can it be detected in vessels? Very scary in working hands.

So what fuel was mixed with this to make it a bomb? What was the white flashing in some of the videos that looked just like charges going off when the level a big building?

What is rocket fuel?

American farmers have used ammonium nitrate for ages. We call it 45%. It's a safe source of nitrogen. We don't mix fertilizers and fuels, nor store them together! Of course we should question the purchase of ammonium nitrate or any chemical that if misused could be dangerous.

Tedious link: NH₄NO₃ a white crystalline solid for agriculture (fertilizer); an explosive + oxidizer that pres. Aoun (the Halloween pres.) knew was being mass stored 3wks+ ago. Not to be confused w/ animal (Amyl) Nitrate C5H11ONO a 90s track by suedeHQ

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ammonium nitrate is unstable; at high temperatures it decomposes into nitrogen, oxygen and water vapor. Again, it is a relatively low-energy explosion, but dangerous when large amounts are involved. It is reckoned to be about 40% as powerful as TNT.

Asked that question twice yesterday . What? Google search ain't doing it for you?

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I have an older friend that used ammonium nitrate to remove a large stump from his field. The story was so funny it would bring tears to your eyes. It turns out that three fifty-pound bags was a little too much.

lol. It was NOT ammonium nitrate. Wake up.

It is not what was responsible for said explosion. But good luck passing that story.

It’s stuff that blows up

Same as what Timoth MCVeigh used in OKC.

Fertilizer and an explosive.

I am an author and science teacher in CT. This compound is a very common chemical in fertilizer and quite stable.

Thank me

Fertilizer.

Ammonium Nitrate is a very dangerous and highly explosive chemical that needs to be handled and stored carefully and we difitently do not want terrorists getting their hands on it too.

Why doesn't someone check into how they store chemicals in TEXAS? No ZONE RULES!

professor at the California Institute of Technology. “Just give it a little fuel and you’re asking for trouble, and that’s what apparently happened.” So how did it get mixed with fuel?

I wonder who is going to be held responsible for this carnage. (ps: The lady on the piano is playing 'Auld Lang Syne').

Spoiler, it’s fertilizer.

Oh, I know! I know! I know the answer to this one!!! .... It's the explosive that white Christian domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh used in Oklahoma City.

It's been used in bombs for decades.

Ooohhh fireworks!

You're asking the wrong question... why did it sit there unattended for 6 years?

In 1947 a ship full of that stuff exploded in Texas City Texas. 500 people lost their lives.

Here is a proper public interest story.

Hmmm....maybe Trump was ready to purchase some with our tax dollars for who knows what Ask Mnuchin and Sec of Defense...

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