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Originally posted by colonelcrisp you realize that ANFO is a mixed compound...... the AN part is very stable.... its when you mix it with the FO part (see diesel fuel for terrorists, and less volatile component for industrial blasting) then it becomes dangerous. Unless some libertarian broke into the plant and dumped 40,000 gallons of diesel into their batching silo's, i doubt this was an ANFO explosion.

I never said it was an ANFO explosion, I said the fact that its a component in explosives should make you consider sitting in a car 200m away from it.

The precursors to AN are volatile explosive, which is what was on fire at this plant.