Just wow! Impressive hole in the ground
It boils down to what detonator with adequate explosive energy was used to set off relatively stable ammonium nitrate?
The building, or neighboring one, was already on fire.
many questions.
many explosion sets and locations.
that does NOT look like grain in that silo.
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Doesn’t need a detonator. AN will decompose with heat. As more mass decomposes( turns into gases which are volatile) it can increase decomposition until critical temp is reached, around 280 c for common AN.
Also, doesn’t need a fuel additive like petroleum to be an explosive. AN by itself is just a bit less “fast” an explosive than TNT.
So, a mass of AN, an uncontrolled fire, eventual decomp until critical temp of some portion is reached, then mass deflagration of the whole volume....
“It boils down to what detonator with adequate explosive energy was used to set off relatively stable ammonium nitrate?”
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