Amonium nitrate transport caught fire

In Western Australia a town was evacuated due to a truck fire.

A truck transporting amonium nitrate caught fire about half a kilometre from a town that caused the residents to hunker down and prepare for evacuation.

This seems pretty serious, that on a flat plain a town 500 metres away was prepared for Armageddon.

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Seems like it’s serious stuff.

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Ammonium nitrate, only goes high ordinance, if a shock wave goes through it. Do a search for fuel oxidizers.

Makes me wonder what happened to that radioactive thing that fell through a bolt hole or something on a truck outback .

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The did find the isotope in the end. a reply to: Dalamax

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If you light it in fire, however, it does release some pretty nasty gas.

Oh cool! LC answered my next question....

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