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To: Erik Latranyi

It will under the right conditions.

Best example: The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the Port of Texas City, Texas, at Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history’s largest non-nuclear explosions. A mid-morning fire started on board the French-registered vessel SS Grandcamp (docked in the port) and detonated her cargo of about 2,300 tons (about 2,100 metric tons) of ammonium nitrate.


7 posted on 08/06/2020 7:11:24 AM PDT by Clean_Sweep
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To: Clean_Sweep

Amonium Nitrate being used is far different than being stored.

Regardless, something set it off and I do not think a fire is sufficient.


9 posted on 08/06/2020 10:40:16 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (The Democratic Party is communism)
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