[Mashiro]

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So, you didn't even read a small bit of what I have written in my previous post. Or even checked a few of the sources I mentioned? There are more sources available if these sources aren't enough for you. Pretty much all news sources from a lot of countries around the world report the same about this incident.

No one was even remotely talking about "fireworks factory". I don't know where you have pulled this idea out.

2750 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded!

According to several local news that I've read and heard on the radio the explosion was caused by a chemical substance called ammonium nitrate. This chemical substance is used in many ways to manufactor different kinds of explosives to simple stuff like fireworks and much more. It is highly explosive. Why did it explode? According to sources it was NOT stored properly and safely. We're talking about 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate that exploded due to wrong handling and storage. FYI: ammonium nitrate is also used for gardening as salt in fertilizers.

Sources:
- https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/beirut...n-139.html (German - use Google Translate or similar)
- https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article2...eldet.html (German - use Google Translate or similar)
- https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/05/middl...index.html
- https://www.cnet.com/how-to/beirut-explo...n-tuesday/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-53664064

The exploision happened and actually as it usually is they can say it was caused by whatever they want but it should be very easy to prove a high level of ammonium nitrate and I assume that somewhere records exist that prove that ammonium nitrate was stored at that location. If you check the news article it looks like it was slowly "cooking" there. Like you know when chemicals are in their reaction phase they can cause really annoying and strong smell.

Could that have been avoided? Yes, I think it could have been. Proper storage, handling and most importantly maybe periodical monitoring.

It's not like I mentioned ammonium nitrate a few times already. It's not like almost all sources report about ammonium nitrate being the cause of the explosion.


Few more sources from other news sites:
- https://www.npr.org/2020/08/07/899776352...6876483987
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/a...-in-hangar (even if "fireworks" is mentioned here... read the article... they are still taking about the same 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate - most likely because fireworks are made of ammonium nitrate as many other explosives are)
- https://www.wired.com/story/tragic-physi...on-beirut/


Honestly... if people still don't have an understand how dangerous ammonium nitrate generally is... can't be helped with. It is simple a very reactive chemical subtance. It was stored in a hangar under the wrong conditions and caused a massive explosion that was possibly easily amplified by what else was stored around the area of that hanger and could have been explosive or flamable.


I'm slowly out of here for good. No way. That's a few levels too low to begin with.