Timeline for How does ammonium nitrate explode on its own?
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| Aug 8, 2020 at 16:21 | comment | added | Jason C | Reportedly there were fireworks stored in the same warehouse as the AN in Beirut: youtube.com/watch?v=LNDhIGR-83w | |
| Aug 8, 2020 at 6:42 | history | edited | Mathew Mahindaratne |
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| Aug 8, 2020 at 2:07 | answer | added | Jason C | timeline score: 3 | |
| S Aug 7, 2020 at 21:03 | history | suggested | Rodrigo de Azevedo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Link to Wikipedia page. In 10 years, readers may wonder what happened in Beirut in August 2020. Let's save them time.
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| Aug 7, 2020 at 13:05 | answer | added | Jan | timeline score: 1 | |
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| S Aug 7, 2020 at 7:22 | history | suggested | Nij | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2020 at 12:40 | comment | added | cbeleites | @Buttonwood: and almost 100 years after the Oppau explosion, the BASF plant still has the Trichterstraße [crater road] (Bombentrichter is German for bomb crater, Trichter alone would usually be funnel). | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 21:57 | comment | added | Mark | @MuhammadAbbass, when ammonium nitrate detonates, it doesn't undergo combustion (which would require a fuel), it undergoes decomposition (which doesn't). | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 17:08 | vote | accept | Rob N | ||
| Aug 5, 2020 at 17:08 | history | edited | Mathew Mahindaratne | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 5, 2020 at 15:50 | comment | added | Mithoron | @MuhammadAbbass I already mentioned that while nitrate anion is oxidising, ammonium cation is reducing. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 15:05 | comment | added | Buttonwood | @IvanNeretin Side note: The one in Toulouse (southern part of France) in September 2001 was forcefully enough that the plant's name, «AZF» was banned as letter combination on the car plates. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AZF_(factory), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_France). | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 14:16 | comment | added | Oscar Bravo | @MuhammadAbbass As many of the answers state, ammonium nitrate is both an oxidiser and an explosive. You have no need to witness an explosion - things like this have occurred before: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster | |
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| Aug 5, 2020 at 9:27 | answer | added | Mathew Mahindaratne | timeline score: 29 | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 9:17 | answer | added | Alchimista | timeline score: 14 | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 8:08 | answer | added | Nilay Ghosh | timeline score: 42 | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 3:01 | comment | added | Nilay Ghosh | From amm. Nitrate disasters : "Large stockpiles of the material can also be a major fire risk due to their supporting oxidation, a situation which can easily escalate to detonation." and so in this case, it was the fire that spread onto amm. nitrate which caused it to detonate. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 2:07 | comment | added | Muhammad Abbass | I'm unable to comprehend how it can detonate absent a fuel mixture. The chemistry I'm seeing suggesting it can does not seem legit. It is not a low explosive, it is an oxidiser. Add fuel and it is a high explosive. Absent fuel just an oxidiser. There has to have been fuel involved, some kind of fuel for the explosion to happen. I will have to see straight Ammonium Nitrate explode before I will believe this. Prove it, because I do not believe . | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 0:53 | comment | added | Francis L. | 0.74/0.42 = 1.76 times as powerful en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 0:10 | comment | added | Rob N | @FrancisL. The videos show an enormous explosion. You're saying ANFO would be worse? I guess that's a separate question if I want to quantify that. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 0:03 | comment | added | Francis L. | as far as i know it was fertiliser, without fuel added. I don't think even those who permitted huge quantities of NH4NO3 to be stored in port for years would permit storage of a serious explosive which is ANFO | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 0:01 | comment | added | jezzo | see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters for the two mechanisms | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 23:58 | comment | added | Mithoron | Fuel is added because it has surplus oxygen. Still $\ce{NH4^+}$ reduces $\ce{NO3^-}$ good enough, by itself. | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 23:51 | answer | added | Francis L. | timeline score: -3 | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 23:48 | comment | added | Ivan Neretin | Things like that did happen before. Look up Oppau, also Texas City. | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 23:35 | history | asked | Rob N | CC BY-SA 4.0 |