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To: AppyPappy

Various Twitter sources saying a fire started in a container of “Explosives” at the “Metalurgical Industrial” port.

That caused an acetylene transfer tank at the port to explode. Other Tweets say it was acetone/ketene.


19 posted on 08/12/2015 11:10:23 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

That sounds about right. Static electricity causes a lot of these massive explosions.


23 posted on 08/12/2015 11:12:46 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: tcrlaf; All

BBC/sky, etc. all over this.

CNN too busy attacking Trump, and feeding into the #BlackLivesMatter narrative.


29 posted on 08/12/2015 11:18:34 AM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf
Acetylene is unstable at pressure as a gas.

From the MSDS

Storage: Because of acetylene's unstable nature, it must be stored under special conditions. This is accomplished by dissolving the acetylene in liquid acetone. The liquid acetone is then stored in the acetylene cylinder, which in turn, is filled with a porous (sponge-like) cementitious material.

So if acetylene was involved, acetone likely was present.

75 posted on 08/12/2015 11:59:28 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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