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  2. 60,000 pounds of an explosive chemical lost during rail ... - AOL

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    About 60,000 pounds of a chemical used as both a fertilizer and an explosive is missing after likely disappearing during a rail trip from Wyoming to California last month, according to federal ...

  3. List of ammonium nitrate incidents and disasters - Wikipedia

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    About 200–300 tonnes were said to be involved in the explosion, resulting in 31 people dead and 2,442 injured, 34 of them seriously. The blast wave shattered windows up to 3 km (1.9 mi) away, and the resulting crater was 7 m deep and 60 m wide. The exact cause remains unknown. The material damage was estimated at 2.3 billion euros. France's ...

  4. Explosive materials in New Jersey home caused blast that ...

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    Among the materials found inside a vehicle on the property were 74 pounds of potassium nitrate, 15 pounds of aluminum powder, six pounds of Explosive materials in New Jersey home caused blast that ...

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  6. Pentaerythritol tetranitrate - Wikipedia

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    PETN is a very powerful explosive material with a relative effectiveness factor of 1.66. [2] When mixed with a plasticizer, PETN forms a plastic explosive. [3] Along with RDX it is the main ingredient of Semtex. PETN is also used as a vasodilator drug to treat certain heart conditions, such as for management of angina. [4] [5]

  7. Oxyliquit - Wikipedia

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    The explosive properties of these mixtures were discovered in Germany in 1895 by Prof. Carl von Linde, a developer of a successful machine for liquefaction of gases, who named them oxyliquits. In 1930, over 3 million pounds (1.4 × 10 ^ 6 kg) of liquid oxygen were used for this purpose in Germany alone, and additional 201,466 lb (91,383 kg ...

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    RDX (abbreviation of "Research Department eXplosive" or Royal Demolition eXplosive) or hexogen, [4] among other names, is an organic compound with the formula (CH 2 N 2 O 2) 3. It is white, odorless, and tasteless, widely used as an explosive. [5] Chemically, it is classified as a nitroamine alongside HMX, which is a more energetic explosive ...

  9. ALEA investigating explosive device detonated over the ...

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    It was determined that the suspicious package was an explosive device that was detonated in the early morning hours of Saturday, Feb. 24. No injuries or damage to nearby buildings have been reported.

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