"Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >*: A year or two ago someone posted about the blow up of Texas City back in >the early 1950s.
1947. >Apparently, some kind of tanker hit something else and set of a chain >reaction killing thousands and wiping out the town After several earlier events (the biggest being Oppau in Germany in 1921, which left a crater the size of a city block), fire safety folk were given an incentive to discover the true chemistry of ammonium nitrate. Google for "Texas city" + Grandcamp (the ship carrying the ammonium nitrate) for the full story. Peter.
