Quote (Goomshill @ Aug 4 2020 11:21pm)

eh looks like sleuths already found pictures of the massive quantities of nitropril stored in the warehouse
https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1290789726283345926
that does back up the story of it being nitrate seized from a shipping vessel 6 years ago that didn't pay its import tariffs

but wow, whos bright idea was it to leave that sitting in a warehouse for years unattended.

Quote (Thor123422 @ Aug 4 2020 10:07pm)

Most likely a fertilizer plant. This shit is used by the thousands of tons for fertilizer production. It's the limiting factor in plant growth worldwide.

There's two ways this explosion could have happened.

1. They let it dry out and a spark hit it, causing it to catch fire.

2. They're storing a lot of it all in one container, which causes the bottom to compress into a crystal. When the crystal cracks the energy at the crack causes it to break down into N2, H2, and O2 (that then reacts to make H2O in combustion, but that's only a secondary effect) that then breaks into a chain reaction throughout the entirety of the stockpile.

Either way, these kinds of things are semi-common. The explosion in Texas in 2013 was caused by the same thing.

Quote (Santara @ Aug 5 2020 05:26am)

So... government incompetence?