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Tango589 · 09-06-14, 08:55 AM

If this Ammonium Nitrate got mixed with diesel from the ruptured fuel tank when the truck rolled over, this would have created something akin to ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil). On Mythbusters they used 850 lbs (386 Kgs) of ANFO to reduce a cement truck to tiny parts. I can only imagine the kind of boom that went up when 50 Tonnes of ANFO went up!

Here's the Mytbusters clip:

09-06-14, 08:55 AM	#7
Tango589 Still crazy as ever! Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A little south of sanity Posts: 3,375 Downloads: 180 Uploads: 1	If this Ammonium Nitrate got mixed with diesel from the ruptured fuel tank when the truck rolled over, this would have created something akin to ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil). On Mythbusters they used 850 lbs (386 Kgs) of ANFO to reduce a cement truck to tiny parts. I can only imagine the kind of boom that went up when 50 Tonnes of ANFO went up! Here's the Mytbusters clip: __________________ Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way...