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Originally Posted by Byrns
Fertilizer? It's usually pretty explosive.
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Not by itself usually. If mixed with something or initiated by another explosive, then yes. It's fairly stable, otherwise you wouldn't see it being transported in large quantities.
The larger blast may have been a result of a large stockpile of AN initiated by a smaller blast perhaps by an ammonia tank. Or perhaps it mixed somehow with something else and ignited.
I wish they would stop referring to it as a plant, as I'm sure this is just a distributor/sales location which stockpiled for local ag use. If anything, they may have done custom mixes/compositions, but as far as I know, they actually didn't produce the materials they stored.