>>11989156Some industrial chemistry expert explain this to me:
They claim that the blast was due to the popular explosive ammonium nitrate. Now literally every entry level fag knows that
NH4NO3 ---> (heat or explosion) N2O + 2H2O
Even at the kind of high temperatures which such an explosion would create, the N2O would decompose to N2 + O2.
The only possible way to get that brown clouds is >30% concentration of NO2 in an open system. I don't see any possible reaction that could give NO2. To get NO2 you'd need to vigorously oxidised N2 in some way. For this you need temperatures of 3200 K and such, which I don't think are possible for such long times to produce that concentration or you need a Platinum catalyst, which is of course not present anywhere.
Then where did all that NO2 come from bros?
