Posted on 09/08/2006 5:28:21 PM PDT by indcons
Correct. Prilled (pelletized) and coated to retard water (and fuel oil) absorption. And, as a fertilizer, it probably is diluted (cut) with phosphates, etc. What is now sold as "fertilizer grade" ammonium nitrate is far inferior to "explosive grade" ammonium nitrate -- at least for explosive purposes.
IOW, this article is hysterical bunk!
Yep, but don't forget, it's "The most dangerous". Journalists really are the biggest idiots araound.
If you threw togethwr 20 of their reporters you would have half a ton of shat as well the problem with washington is they store to many damn reporters now all in the hip pocket of Democrats !
But, on a more serious note, I do agree that this is problematic. We should be suspicious of journalists. Journalists should not be permitted to buy anything that could be made into a bomb. Yes, I am advocating profiling.
"Do you realize that that stuff has a pH much higher than concentrated sulfuric acid?"
True.
That said, isn't the PH considere to be chemically neutral even if the pH is either higher than any acid or lower than any alkali?
"...We should be suspicious of journalists. Journalists should not be permitted to buy anything that could be made into a bomb. Yes, I am advocating profiling."
Excellent...LMAO.
Correction -
That said, isn't the pH of water considered to be chemically neutral even if its pH is either higher than any acid or lower than any alkali?
ABC is going to deeply regret this supposed "fertilizer bomb" report. Especially, by airing such contrived crap, on the anniversary of 9-11.
And you don't just mix it in your bathtub. You have to do the mixing just right. And then there is the part about requiring a lot of real high-explosives placed in the right way to get it to detonate. And then there is the part that you have to get within about 100ft of the white house to do real dama - and not a few miles - which could be in Virginia or Maryland or Anacostia.
But these are just details and I don't want to rain on their parade.
No, the pH of water is 7 (if pure). The pH of even dilute H2SO4 is 1 to 2- 7 is higher than 1, the pH of water is much higher than that of sulfuric acid.
The pH of something like household ammonia is on the order of 10-11 or more, higher than that of water.
pH is the negative log of the H+ concentration, and it works out that the equalibrium concentration of pure water is 1x10^-7, and the negative log of that is 7.
Hey...they just need to get MacGyver...can't he blow up a building with a candy bar or something?
Legislation requiring buyers of ammonium nitrate to be registered by the federal government have been blocked by the agricultural industry
special interest politics at work. Another sad story on the workings of government of, by and for the people.
One man can manually load ten 100 pound bags of ANYTHING into the back of a truck in 5-10 minutes. Now, if it was a thousand 100 pound bags, I might sit up and take notice (5 tons).
As a teen, I used to make ammonium nitrate at a fertilizer shed for area farmers.
Being licensed to buy it would harass many people, but it might be wise. Still, one can buy all the gasoline they want. Do we need licensing for that?
Time to ship Brian and Rhonda overses for a little of the CIA's old "alternative set of interrogation procedures."
As you pointed out, ammonium nitrate is not the most energetic explosive around. They would also need boosters and primers to set it off. I don't think that a thousand pounds of ANFO would be much of a threat to any building in Washington with todays security. All just a bunch of journalistic hype. Still, I wouldn't mind if BATF took a closer look at ABC News. I have suspected them of being a terrorist organization for some time. ;-)
They are idiots. Besides possibly endangering the President, they ignore the fact when large purchases are made, the feds look into it, AFAIK.
That's why I only eat fruit after either air drying for a few months. All that crappy DHMO.... BEGONE!
A ship load would do the trick.
Remember the Grand Camp freighter which blew Texas City away in 1947.
If anyone sees a ship, steaming up near the White House, look out!
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