Emperor1956
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any fine powder in the air, near an open flame, can explode. Grain elevators do it with some surprising regularity. Nitrogen fertilizer is very explosive, given the right detonator and/or catalyst. It was the major component of the Oklahoma City bomb. And every couple of years some poor dumb bastard's pickup goes up because he was carrying a few hundred pounds of the stuff. E.
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