heyitsmeallen Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abenjami Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Damn Gina. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OilerTitanHybrid Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Hold on Margo! Briefcase mini hydrogen nuke blast! Clear da port! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OilerTitanHybrid Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 27 minutes ago, abenjami said: Damn Gina. First thing I thought of when I saw that... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NashvilleNinja Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 There's no way those were just fireworks blowing up. Since when do fireworks cause shockwaves and mushroom clouds? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OilerTitanHybrid Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Nitrates. That's what is possible when you eat a hot dog full of those pesky nitrates. A mini heartburn explosion inside ya might go off at any time! Number9 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NashvilleNinja Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 18 minutes ago, heyitsmeallen said: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
titanruss Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 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? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChemEngr79 Posted August 4, 2020 Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 Ammonium nitrate has blown like that before. Either way, they had a horrific facility siting plan for what they were storing there... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyitsmeallen Posted August 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2020 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChemEngr79 Posted August 5, 2020 Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, heyitsmeallen said: Yeah apparently it was over 2700lbs of ammonium nitrate. For perspective: ~6,000,000lbs blew here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster I think 2700lbs sounds pretty low given the explosion size... Edited August 5, 2020 by ChemEngr79 titanruss 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyitsmeallen Posted August 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, ChemEngr79 said: For perspective: 3,500,000kg blew here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster It was actually over 2700 tons not lbs. I edited my post. So 5.5million lbs or around 2.5m kg pat, and titanruss 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChemEngr79 Posted August 5, 2020 Report Share Posted August 5, 2020 (edited) 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..." Edited August 5, 2020 by ChemEngr79 pat, and heyitsmeallen 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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