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https://news.sky.com/story/beirut-e...m-nitrate-and-why-is-it-so-dangerous-12042671

 

Right, I didn’t know anything about it but have since read it was tonnes of ammonium sulphate stored and maybe forgotten about? Apparently can be used as fertiliser or for explosives I read, if what I read is true the substance will not ignite under 210C? Very sad for everyone caught up in it.

 

I think someone broke the thermometer

 

Similar explosion here where it was stored as fertiliser.

The fireworks were burning for a while before the explosion. Surely someone knew what was next door and they could have evacuated?

 

Wow! The power of that shock wave

 

well since the Provos caused this with a van full of fertiliser , and some C4 as a detonator ,

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not surprising 2700 tonnes of pure Ammonium Nitrate causes huge damage but even so when you see it you just go
Holy **** .

 

All the big bombs were fertilizer.

But that one yesterday, holy **** indeed.

 

Guido Fawkes originally ...

 

I blame the Chinese ..

 

Holy **** indeed

 

They were just talking about the amount being held with a chemical weapons expert, and he said to put it to scale, if this quantity of Ammonium Nitrate and gone off in Manchester or London, it would completely flatten the whole of those Cities.

 

That seems a bit of an exaggeration from them tbh.

It's shocking that 300,000 ppl have been made homeless from that blast though.

 

As we were driving in the car, masks at the ready for the weekly shop and they're reporting on the Beirut blast on the radio, my daughter just says "2020 is the ****test year ever."

It certainly ranks up there.

 

Agree an exaggeration but to think it could have been so much worse, if the storage had not been on a waters edge, which meant that buildings only took a certain circumference of the blast. so say fifty percent, maybe more. Buildings affected were as far as 2 miles out, that affected 778,000 people, hence I assume why 300,000 as you say are homeless. IF it stretched out just one more mile (3 miles), it would have affected an additional 1 million people! I really don't think people can get a true picture on the scale of this from a TV screen. Thankfully the density of population was only 116,000 people within the first mile, the next mile you can quintuple that figure. Some of the populated tower blocks, had great big holes punched in them by the blast and cars look like they've been tossed about like dinky toys.

 

was the expert @HRH Custard VC by any chance?

I mean that was massive but flatten London/Manchester?

the shockwaves were felt 8 miles away but everything is still standing beyond a certain distance...damage yes..flattened no

defo Kustard

 

He probably meant the centre of those cities.

 

He got London confused with Kidderminster again. Easily done.

 

Yeah, I mean a U.K. city full of buildings built to exacting standards would have been much more damaged than a city like Beirut. It’s obvious.

 

Not sure, is it too early to make up jokes about the explosion in Beirut.

Actually I think I'll wait for the dust to settle.

 

Boom boom