What kind of explosive did the Tianjin guy use? I was thinking about tatp or nitroglycerin but they would be too instable to be timed. Did he just go for extremely high amounts of black powder consider the smoke it made? But that would not explain the fire drops coming from the explosion
A woman rammed a stolen cement truck laden with explosives into an ammo dump which resulted in that inferno. About 14000 people died.
Chinesium
The most unstable but powerful substance on the earth.
The the only explaination for some of the most insane and inexplicable fires and explosions in chinese liveleak videos.
spbp
Literally look up what was in the warehouse, the place was a haven of storing things that shouldn't belong next to each other in those quantities but were there anyways because corruption.
this anon gets it
Did he died?
What the fuck happened in that webm?
Propane fire into explosion. They had propane tank for cooking stove somewhere there. Tank/stove is leaking propane, propane is heavy gas it accumulated around ground guy drove cart there, cart made spark, spark ignited propane. Many such cases.
I suck at chemistry but is it possible for ammonium nitrate fertilizer to become as unstable as nitroglycerin to shock just through poor storage or something? I'm trying to figure out what in the whole fuck happened here.
>is it possible for ammonium nitrate fertilizer to become as unstable as nitroglycerin to shock just through poor storage or something?
No, but it has another interesting characteristic that leads to it self-igniting all the time. It gets cold when it absorbs water. Guess what it does when it loses water? It gets hot, driving off even more steam, getting even hotter, until it catches fire. Once it's on fire, if it's a large enough quantity in one place, it can transition to a proper detonation in not too much time
I thought Ammonium Nitrate conflagrates, but doesn't technically detonate.
did the Beirut explosion look like a conflagration to you?
as an aside it's got some of the most kino explosion footage ever taken
I love the Beirut explosion because it happened on my birthday lol
explosive conflagration is often hard to differentiate from a true detonation. I could be wrong, I just remember that there's a distinction and there's some common explosive that technically doesn't detonate. I don't remember what it was though.
It's to do with the rate of burning; like if it burns fast enough to create a supersonic shock wave then it's a detonation, otherwise its a declaration. But with Beiruit you had the same effect as with gunpowder where technically its a low explosive that deflagrates unless you constrict it, in which case it can be made to burn fast enough to create a shockwave; in Beirut they had a whole warehouse of the stuff stacked together burning for a while that finally hit the right set of circumstances to turbo boom
ok yeah, you could definitely see the condensation from the pressure wave in the Beirut footage.
*declaration deflagration
After watching it more closely it looks like the ignition happened once he set the wheelbarrow down. Was it static electricity igniting a gas leak? That had to have a fucking crazy leak, and I'm going to guess they don't put a foul smelling additive in their gas?
It was the wheelbarrow skid being set down on concrete and sparking. Drag steel across concrete there are to likely to be sparks.
No. Chinesium is a substance that looks and feels like metal, but has the hardness of cold plastic. Its used a lot in tool manufacturing, especially drill bits and screw heads.
Lol. Is that for real?
>DO NOT EAT HEAT COIN
>guaranteed disease
Kek
PrepHole has possibly the dumbest people in this website
It's the lead poisoning
Its China. Shit just blows up randomly there.
Ammonium nitrate, same shit as the Beirut explosion
I thought Tianjin was larger but it turns out that Beirut was around 4x larger
Beirut was one of the largest conventional explosions of all time, larger than many smaller end tactical nukes, maybe 1.4 kilotons.
There have been larger conventional explosions. A US test involved 4 kilotons of explosives and after WWII about 4 kilotons were set off at an ammo depot by accident.
The most deadly non-nuclear blast was during WWI at the Battle of Messines. The Entente tunneled under the German trenches and packed the mines with millions of pounds of explosives, a few kilotons of blast. It killed up to 10,000 Germans and blasted a huge hole in the line. It was heard way off in Dublin. This would be the closest thing to what a tactical nuke would look like in the real world.
>The most deadly non-nuclear blast was during WWI at the Battle of Messines
Picrel.
>Best man made explosion: 50 megatons
>God's largest explosion on Earth: octillions of gigatons when the LORD slaps Earth with a Mars-sized exoplanet in order to give us the Moon.
And atheists still tempt fate....
>God's largest explosion on Earth: octillions of gigatons when the LORD slaps Earth with a Mars-sized exoplanet in order to give us the Moon.
Atheist power fantasy
We have no power.
IIRC there's still a farm field in Belgium or France somewhere with 10's of thousands of pounds of TNT buried under it from an old mine which failed to detonate.
Yup. There was another that didn't go off as planned but detonated in the 1950s after a lightning strike. There's also a halifax-tier explosives ship sat sunken in the Thames estuary which hasn't been dealt with either as the safest course of action is to just wait until it rots away
There's more than one mine out there, at least two more IIRC. And untold amounts of UXO caches all around the former battlefields.
>1.4kt
Anon's yesterday were claiming per wiki it was estimated somewhere between 0.5kt-1.12 kt. I think the high end number was.
What about Halifax or Galveston?
nta, Halifax was the biggest unintended one I think, but not the deadliest.
not enough people around. less than 10,000 dead (still fucking horrific since so many got buried in a heavy snow the next day)
Halifax was estimated at 2.9 kT.
>The most deadly non-nuclear blast was during WWI at the Battle of Messines. The Entente tunneled under the German trenches and packed the mines with millions of pounds of explosives, a few kilotons of blast. It killed up to 10,000 Germans and blasted a huge hole in the line. It was heard way off in Dublin. This would be the closest thing to what a tactical nuke would look like in the real world.
Here's an aerial view of it. It's called Lochnagar mine for anyone who's interested
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochnagar_mine
Kinda funny that the material those dirkas were storing for using on others blew up on them.
I WARN THEM! I WARN THEM WHAT HAPPEN WHEN YOU MAKE KUNG PAO CHICKEN TOO HispanicY!!!
fuck ya mudda add a 2015 before tianjin next time.
i have family in tianjin and your tard thread scared the shit out of me for a moment.
>what explosive did the guy use
What the fuck are you talking about? Is it schizo hours already? Documentation says that a container of nitrocellulose overheated and exploded the ammonium nitrate.
ammonium nitrate
for a century or so now that shit goes off in a big boom every fucking decade or so.
here is the original big boom of it at the manufacturing plant in Oppau.
it would collect in this condensed hard packed salt mix of ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate.
This mix was quite stable. They had to use pickaxes to get it separated.
Eventually they got tired of that and started using TNT charges.
Straight up TNT charges.
It was fine as long as the mix was evenly distributed... but one day there was a big ol pocket of mostly pure ammonium nitrate.
And when that blew, so did the other ammonium salts.
Another notable incident of Ammonium nitrate going off was in 1947, Texas City.
Poor bastards.
So there were several ships in port with big loads of the stuff.
Something happened with one of them, and their load of ammonium nitrate had some sort of reaction start, heat up, and turn into a fire.
Longshoreman reported some bags as being oddly warm when it was being loaded.
So a fire starts.
They try to fight the fire.
It keeps going.
The texas city fire department gets involved.
Like, ALL of them.
The water around the ship starts to actually bubble and boil because of the heat, and all sorts of people are crowding around the area to look at it.
And then it goes.
And it hits a nearby ship also packed with the stuff, igniting it, and eventually that goes off as well.
There were a lot of chemical refineries and the like along the waterfront.
Those all got lit on fire as well.
And pretty much the entire fire department was long dead from the first blast.
btw, here is a list of ammonium nitrate cooking off in a notable manner.
note how closely it conforms to my statement of
>every decade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ammonium_nitrate_disasters