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white cloud

(2,567 posts) Fri Apr 26, 2013, 12:33 AM Apr 2013

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Fertilizer that may have caused Texas explosion

There are more than 6,000 fertilizer facilities in the United States, but few stock ammonium nitrate, the chemical considered a suspect in the explosion that ripped through West, Texas, last week.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/25/texas-explosion-fertilizer-ammonium-nitrate/2108571/

Some good pictures of the service yesterday PM.

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Fri Apr 26, 2013, 06:21 PM

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But it's not a danger that exists in many places. That's because the chemical, once a popular fertilizer, is rarely used these days

So if it is rarely used these days - why was this plant increasing their supply of it?

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