Oxley, who carried out research into the chemical compound, said that while the ammonium nitrate has been used as an explosive, the compound cannot be solely responsible for the explosion.
But the chemical has a more nefarious use -- as an explosive. The chemical compound was used to make explosives for the. The fertilizer and fuel bomb used then contained just over two tons of ammonium nitrate to carry out the deadliest domestic terror attack on U.S. soil. The warehouse in Beirut is believed to have carried more than 1,000 times that amount.
A general view shows the damage at the site of Tuesday's blast in Beirut's port area, Lebanon August 5, 2020.Yet, The ammonium nitrate appears to have been confiscated from a commercial cargo ship abandoned in Beirut in 2013, allegedly with a Russian owner, and then confiscated by the Lebanese authorities a year later; it's origins linked to former Soviet republic, Georgia.
"What is certain is that when this product is on its own, it cannot explode," Choquet said. At the moment, it is"hard to say the exact cause for the explosion," he said, and the authorities may never find one.
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