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Re: Huge explosion in Lebanese capital, Beirut
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
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 |
Sky reporting someone was welding in the building
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