Nitrogen atoms will always dream of forming ridiculously stable molecules of nitrogen gas, while plants want the stuff in a form they can get their biochemical hooks into. That tension is always going to make nitrogenous fertilizers tend towards the explody.
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But really what this is is the trope that all Middle Eastern stories have to be about terrorism, as if the horrible human tragedy of misgovernment and corruption weren't story enough.
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if you ask me it's all a bunch of shit
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I was checking up on the UK (and EU) regulations for ammonium nitrate, as the story grew. Ammonium nitrate is a component of industrial explosive, and a distinct grade is used. The controls do distinguish.
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There's a photo of 1000kg sacks, marked with a label not quite the same as a trademark used by one manufacturer of the explosive component type. There's a dodgy pattern in all this, but both grades would work as fertiliser.
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