Huge explosion in Lebanese capital, Beirut
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Wow, thats a huge explosion.
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To me, that looks like a flour dust explosion.
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Both my dad and I saw this and went "Fuff".
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That is an amazing, unbelievable, screw up.
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Sadly the latest figures they have now are that there are 78 dead and more then 4,000 injured.:(
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53659282 |
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Apparently the werehouse had 2,700 tons of Amonium Nitrate stored there that had been confiscated several uears earlier from a ship.
This chemical in its own right is not explosive ( It's an oxidising agent ) but if in combination with a flammable source, such as gas or oil, will facilitate an explosion. From the pictures it looks like a fire was already in progress before the explosion so the flammable agent was there heating up the Nitrate. See ANFO |
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The good news is we have a new highly paid welding job for you. The bad news is that it's next to the biggest stack of ammonium nitrate in the Middle East! |
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The explosion is reported to be approximately 1/5 the size of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb and the largest in peacetime.
The devastation is unbelieveable. The videos on-line seem to show a smaller initial explosion with red smoke just before the main blast. |
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The 2015 Tianjin explosion in China was only 800 tons of AN, that stripped concrete balcony's off tower blocks
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That stuff had only been sitting there for 6 or 7 years, what could possibly go wrong?
Unless there was some lengthy legality issue on ownership, you'd have thought they'd have sold most of it off by now (prospective buyers fully vetted ;) ) . . . or moved it away from such a highly populated area. |
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