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To: Mariner

1.1? Yesterday it was 3.3. So not as big as they thought?


4 posted on 08/05/2020 8:59:06 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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To: Fai Mao

Ammonium nitrate is less energetic than TNT, such that the explosion of 2750 tons, i.e. 2.75 kt, of the former has “only” the blast energy of 1.1-1.2 kt of TNT. The times I’ve seen the latter numbers mentioned in other articles was in the context of kt TNT blast equivalent.


10 posted on 08/05/2020 9:16:20 PM PDT by coloradan (The Enemy Media isn't chartered to inform but rather to advance the interests of certain elites.)
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To: Fai Mao

3.3 earthquake, 1.1kt explosion.

Hiroshima was 8kt.


11 posted on 08/05/2020 9:16:39 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Fai Mao

The yeild of AN is 0.23 kt per ton. That would mean that amount of AN that exploded would have to 1.1/.23 = 4.8 tons. Since AN is not a good bomb material, it would be unlikely that anything like 100% of the material would explode, much of it would scatter. There is some inconsistency here.


45 posted on 08/06/2020 4:08:38 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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To: Fai Mao

You are mixing scales.


51 posted on 08/06/2020 3:27:21 PM PDT by Cuttnhorse (Nothing dies harder than a lie that people want to believe)
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