The devastating explosion at a port in Beirut on August 4 evening has again put the clock back on how ammonium nitrate triggers massive explosions. The August 4 incident that killed more than 100 people and injured at least 4,000 seems to have stemmed from a storage unit housing enormous amounts of ammonium nitrate and that’s the reason Live Science is looking at the science behind such explosive matters
The initial explosion ignited a fire, while the second painted the sky in an apocalyptic...
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