05-08-2020, 03:05 PM
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Re: Huge explosion in Lebanese port
Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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That was some blast.....But I wonder why such large amounts of explosives were stored so close to the city and heavily populated areas......
05-08-2020, 03:40 PM
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Re: Huge explosion in Lebanese port
Originally Posted by Muddy
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3000 tons apparently of ammonium nitrate .
In any case ammonium nitrate is an oxidising agent that needs to act with a fuel in order to make a bang
Even then it's a "slow" explosive.
I remember the car bombs that the Fenien filth set off in order to kill and maim British men, women, and children in Ulster usually sounded like a "thump" rather than the sharp very loud crack from the few pure HE bombs the pigs used against the UK.
05-08-2020, 04:50 PM
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Re: Huge explosion in Lebanese port
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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There probably was Ammonium nitrate there but the explosions shown thus far to me looked as though there was a lot of fast high explosive there, probably more than fertiliser. In any case ammonium nitrate is an oxidising agent that needs to act with a fuel in order to make a bang
Even then it's a "slow" explosive.
I remember the car bombs that the Fenien filth set off in order to kill and maim British men, women, and children in Ulster usually sounded like a "thump" rather than the sharp very loud crack from the few pure HE bombs the pigs used against the UK.
05-08-2020, 05:06 PM
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Re: Huge explosion in Lebanese port
Originally Posted by Vlad
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This might help... https://www.military.com/daily-news/...explosion.html
05-08-2020, 05:52 PM
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Re: Huge explosion in Lebanese port
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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It still doesn't ring true in my mind. I remain convinced there was a great deal of high explosive involved there. Grain silo dust is a fast burn explosive but low yield. That any wasn't low yield. Ammonium nitrate, slow burn low yield. Fireworks? Maybe a few but what we saw was much more likely to have been small arms stuff. Nah. That big bang was HE.
#Lebanese Army Major General Ibrahim “it appears that the explosion occurred in a store of high explosive materials confiscated for years”
05-08-2020, 08:04 PM
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Re: Huge explosion in Lebanese port
Originally Posted by Vlad
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Oklahoma bombing.And only 2 tons of ammonium nitrate
Without a fuel an oxidising agent isn't much use unless on the garden or turning iron into rust.
It's a bit like (very like) saltpetre in solution. Soak a bit of paper in it, let it dry, and you've got firework fuse paper.
05-08-2020, 08:12 PM
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Re: Huge explosion in Lebanese port
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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Never miss an opportunity to stick it to Israel eh? Never let facts or common sense get in the way of rabid hatred of Jews.
05-08-2020, 08:56 PM
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Re: Huge explosion in Lebanese port
An update. Some port officials under house arrest while investigations are carried out.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53670839
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