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Massive explosion at firework factory in Beirut, Lebanon.


heyitsmeallen

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70 is going to be incredibly low. probably closer to several hundred or even thousand.

 

They are saying that it was several years of confiscated explosives. They apparently have been storing them at the port where they confiscated them?

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, ChemEngr79 said:

Ammonium nitrate has blown like that before. Either way, they had a horrific facility siting plan for what they were storing there...

Yeah apparently it was over 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate. 

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5 minutes ago, heyitsmeallen said:

It was actually over 2700 tons not lbs. I edited my post. So 5.5million lbs or around 2.5m kg

 

I was updating my numbers as well...lol.

 

Yeah, that sounds much closer. It was probably the ballpark of ~1 Kiloton detonation without checking the chemistry (~5% the size of nukes on Japan). So that is a pretty fucking big deal.

 

After Texas City, I am shocked they would park something like that in the port of a major city. "Those that do not learn from history..."

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