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Faunsdale, AL | Acutally the pure ammonium nitrate is HARDER to decompose/detonate than when it has certain impurities or mixtures like fuel oil/hydrocarbons.
I spent some time today reading the EPA investigation of the Terra Nitrogen plant explosion in 1994, A big download, but lots of information about the possible risk factors that might have resulted in that disaster. I think their conclusion was that the most likely causes in that case were excessive heat and very acidic ph in the neturalizer/reactor which was shut down but left full of AN because another part of the plant was down. | |
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Watching the History channel this morning, story about AN.
