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Comment by chmod775

Some chemist acquaintances of mine suggested the same from just looking at the footage immediately after. Along with some scary explanations of what fast shockwaves like that do to human blood vessels.

I was convinced this stuff should be outlawed for most uses pretty fast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate_disasters

Though on the other hand, the number of incidents and deaths aren't that high considering how prevalent it is. It's just that a critical failure of handling that stuff is quite spectacularly bad.

parent chmod775 6 years ago

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