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Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Tue August 04, 2020 7:52 pm
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Seems similar to other “fireworks factories” in the area that have explode this summer, just a lot larger
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Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Tue August 04, 2020 10:01 pm
what on earth am I talking about
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BREAKING — The Beirut explosion caused by highly explosive sodium nitrate confiscated from a ship more than a year ago and were placed in one of the warehouses located in the port — Sources to LBCI
Apparently a similar explosion with the same materials in China in 2015.
Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Tue August 04, 2020 10:23 pm
what on earth am I talking about
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The mayor telling people to get out of the city. The air is now toxic. This is awful. Massive grain silo right there too gone now. This is a proper humanitarian disaster I hope they get serious aid globally and quickly.
Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Tue August 04, 2020 11:29 pm
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The clip with the mushroom cloud & shock wave is one of the most jaw dropping videos I have seen in a while. Like I imagine a nuclear bomb would be like.
Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Tue August 04, 2020 11:54 pm
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Biff Pocoroba wrote:
The clip with the mushroom cloud & shock wave is one of the most jaw dropping videos I have seen in a while. Like I imagine a nuclear bomb would be like.
I presume the explosion was not efficient, but the ammonium nitrate present had the equivalent energy of 1 kt of TNT. The bombs dropped on Japan had the equivalent energy of 15 and 20kt.
Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Wed August 05, 2020 12:03 am
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Ammonium nitrate ain't shit to fuck with.
Timothy McVeigh used 2 tons to blow up that federal building in 1996, that Texas factory that blew up from it was 600 tons, this was nearly 3,000 tons.
Whoever the fuck decided to keep 3,000 tons of that sitting in an urban area was a fucking idiot.
Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Wed August 05, 2020 4:56 am
Misplaced My Sponge
Joined: Wed January 02, 2013 3:41 am Posts: 5584
Jammer XCI wrote:
Ammonium nitrate ain't shit to fuck with.
Timothy McVeigh used 2 tons to blow up that federal building in 1996, that Texas factory that blew up from it was 600 tons, this was nearly 3,000 tons.
Whoever the fuck decided to keep 3,000 tons of that sitting in an urban area was a fucking idiot.
Minor quibble: McVeigh used ANFO (ammonium nitrate fuel oil) Ammonium Nitrate is explosive, but something like 0.4 as energetic as TNT. ANFO brings it up to 0.7 as energetic as TNT.
I am curious about the claim that AN needs a primary charge. Seems like a widespread fire for a long duration might just reduce the activation energy required for a proper explosion.
Also, apparently we get explosions from kiloton quantities of Ammonium Nitrate every other decade or so, it just tends to occur in lesser populated areas in larger developed countries.
Post subject: Re: The War on Terror /Central Asia/Mid East/Africa thread
Posted: Thu August 06, 2020 6:25 am
Misplaced My Sponge
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simple schoolboy wrote:
Jammer XCI wrote:
Ammonium nitrate ain't shit to fuck with.
Timothy McVeigh used 2 tons to blow up that federal building in 1996, that Texas factory that blew up from it was 600 tons, this was nearly 3,000 tons.
Whoever the fuck decided to keep 3,000 tons of that sitting in an urban area was a fucking idiot.
Minor quibble: McVeigh used ANFO (ammonium nitrate fuel oil) Ammonium Nitrate is explosive, but something like 0.4 as energetic as TNT. ANFO brings it up to 0.7 as energetic as TNT.
I am curious about the claim that AN needs a primary charge. Seems like a widespread fire for a long duration might just reduce the activation energy required for a proper explosion.
Also, apparently we get explosions from kiloton quantities of Ammonium Nitrate every other decade or so, it just tends to occur in lesser populated areas in larger developed countries.
Correction: Ammonium Nitrate is generally not considered explosive. It will normally just burn.
If you have a critical mass of it that is not readily predictable, it will explode when ignited and allowed to burn.
Unfortunately, the mass of material in Beiruit was equal to or larger than previous AN explosions, so this one was forseeable.
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