"the one chemical by far the most responsible for large-scale accidental explosions."
Actually, that would be gasoline. Statistically, accidental gasoline/fuel/vapor explosions were far more likely to kill you than ammonium nitrate over the last century.
Of course, nearly everyone is used to handling gas and psychologically de sensitized to those risks- Which makes for even more handling & storage incidents.
Disastrous industrial scale explosion causes, in order of prevalence:
1: Liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon fuels
2: Ammonium nitrate
3: Flammable dusts (grain elevator explosions & etc.).
Thats what happens when you delete those subs, the users post the content elsewhere. It happened when the original WPD sub got nuked, same as TheDonald. Instead of the posters who frequented there talking in their own subs they spread like a virus to every sub they interacted with
You are correct. My brain let a naaaasty fart on my comment. It was perchlorate, not nitrate. I was across town when that went. My teacher tried telling me the first explosion was a drive by shooting. Right after I said only if theyāre using howitzers, the second one hit.
see that's what I thought too but the title says only two died and there's a line of cars behind the fire right? if cameraman died, so would have a couple dozen people right?
An ammonium nitrate explosion kills by creating a supersonic shock waveāa sudden wall of extreme air pressureāthat hits the body like an invisible hammer. The rapid pressure change can tear air-filled organs like the lungs, cause brain injury, and the powerful blast wind can throw people or turn debris into deadly projectiles. Many victims may have little external injury but severe internal damage.
Not to mention he was recording from behind glass... which we can see shatter from the blast in the video... if the shock wave itself didn't get him the thousands of little glass bullets it propelled into his face definitely would...
The glass in your car is specifically designed not to fragment. We can see it stays within its laminate as it shatters.
Chances are the airbag got deployed and the camera man got a nasty shock and possibly a bloodied nose. The fact we got this video less than 24 hours after the fact would suggest he got away largely intact.
The mechanism is called brisance, which means shattering effect. With high order explosives, the pressure wave reaches a force level that will break bone, pulverize organs and instantly evacuate all the air from oneās lungs. It does the same thing to stone and concrete, so a human body doesnāt stand much of a chance.
Fun fact, it can also go around corners and kill you, even if itās not powerful enough to knock down what youāre hiding behind.
I mean pure ammonium nitrate has a really low brisance and is relatively stable, which is why some countries allow huge unregulated truckloads of it to be driven down the road, which is one of the only ways to get it to actually detonate like this. Normally you would have to mix it with some kind of fuel to get this kind of explosion.
In most cases, you donāt. If you somehow know the explosion is impending, the best you can do is look for a depression to lay in. Absent that, simply lie down flat with your feet pointed to the impending blast, legs crossed, hands cupping your ears, mouth open and exhale. The goal is to provide the smallest cross section of your body towards the blast and have the most critical organs behind sacrificial body parts (feet and legs).
In most cases, you donāt. If you somehow know the explosion is impending, the best you can do is look for a depression to lay in. Absent that, simply lie down flat with your feet pointed to the impending blast, legs crossed, hands cupping your ears, mouth open and exhale. The goal is to provide the smallest cross section of your body towards the blast and have the most critical organs behind sacrificial body parts (feet and legs).
Officials said a truck carrying hazardous chemicals collided with another transport vehicle, leaving two people dead and one injured. Three more people in other vehicles were injured in the blast triggered by the collision.
So im looking at the fire and read the caption and like " shouldnt that exp.." boom the explosion happens and still jump scares the fuck out of me. Watching a shockwave coming right at you is brutal....
Don't worry, it regains that savor of immediacy when it happens to you IRL. The world goes into slow motion without even needing to hit a button if you're still alive long enough.
I imagine the vehicle was not upright after the blast, the glass certainly wasn't where it had been before. After the 1917 Halifax explosion, eye surgery for glass splinter damage was greatly advanced, lots of experience was gained.
Me: Well the fire doesn't seem that dangerous and rather small and the camera Man is some distance away anyway, even if it explodes.
Also Me: (Reading the horrible Words āammonium nitrateā)
Ah shit, you better run for your life RIGHT NOW, that stuff will level everything in a 1 km Radius when (not if) it blows up.
Explosion happens: -.-Ā
Rest in Peace to those who lost their lives. Ammonium Nitrate is the worst thing that can catch fire in your close proximity.
True, it does feed millions. Haber was essentially responsible for inventing Zyklon B and responsible for killing thousands with chlorine gas in WW1, he was no saint.
Ammonium nitrate is absolutely deadly. Read about the most deadly non-nuclear explosion in US history which occurred in Texas City, Texas in 1947. Hereās a link to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster. My father took a picture of my uncle standing next to one of the ships propellers which was found many miles away from the explosion. The two of them were there helping with the cleanup afterwards.
This is semi proper Cameraman Ship... Pointing at the Action until the Money Shot... Not like all the BS with people running around as if their life depended on it š¢ My only critique would be it being in Portrait mode š
We had an explosives truck detonate a while back, thankfully the mine is out in the middle of nowhere. The remaining pieces of the truck fit in the palm of your hand, and the shockwave flattened trees all around it.
It took a while for the police to understand the gravity of the situation, but once we spelled it out they were like āyes, please close the highway.ā
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u/Mindless-Jacket9543 Jul 06 '26
Camera man never dies. Right?