BBC news just said Beirut explosion was Ammonium Nitrate !!

Eek

 

[glasshouse]

Someone welding a centreliner?

 

[milkloss]

I'd say it was a fair pile of AN for a bang that big. I'm sceptical tbh.

 

[curlietailz]

Another report said sodium nitrate.
speculation
Sorry

 

[DieselRob]

Saw that, but another report I've seen has said sodium nitrate that was confiscated off a boat last year and stored in warehouses since then

 

[br jones]

Avonmouth is full of the stuff

 

[glasshouse]

Newsnight says 2750 tons of AN
“Forgotten about” for 7 years
Came off a ship bound for Mozambique
2750 tons x£240. =
£ 660,000

 

[Still Farming]

Old Nitram stores years ago make you think?

 

[som farmer]

probably get a new list of rules for storing it now.

 

[David.]

It would only be Beeswax wanted that much..

 

[glasshouse]

Old Nitram stores years ago make you think?

But there was a fire next to it

 

[Farma Parma]

Newsnight says 2750 tons of AN
“Forgotten about” for 7 years
Came off a ship bound for Mozambique
2750 tons x£240. =
£ 660,000

Yeah thats bad enuff but think of the quantity of 600kg Bags if it had been bagged up of course
I smell a RAT who in there right mind would leave that Value of Product there for so long?

 

[TripleSix]

It was too much of an explosion for ammonium nitrate in my opinion, maybe if it was modified into ANFO but you wouldn't store it like that...

Sodium nitrate makes more sense.

 

[glasshouse]

It was too much of an explosion for ammonium nitrate in my opinion, maybe if it was modified into ANFO but you wouldn't store it like that...

Sodium nitrate makes more sense.

It was like the ww1 under the ground jobs that made the lochnagar crater, and they werent that big

 

[glasshouse]

Halifax novia scotia was levelled by a huge AN explosion on a ship in ww1 after thr dhip in harbour caught fire

 

[Gadget]

Would it need something other than AN? I thought that it aided rapid combustion of other products, eg diesel

 

[Lincs Lass]

My school chemistry might be wrong but is it sodium or sulfur becomes explosive if it comes into contact with water

 

[Suffolk Serf]

My school chemistry might be wrong but is it sodium or sulfur becomes explosive if it comes into contact with water

Pure sodium, and is very stable when in a compound eg sodium chloride, common table salt.

 

[glasshouse]

My school chemistry might be wrong but is it sodium or sulfur becomes explosive if it comes into contact with water

It was AN, not sodium

 

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