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To: Ish who wrote (416604)6/19/2003 8:25:01 AM
From: Bald Eagle  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
I didn't think that you can get pure powdered nitrogen. Nitrogen doesn't even turn to liquid until very low temperatures. Perhaps it was a compound with lots of nitrogen in it?



To: Ish who wrote (416604)6/19/2003 4:25:32 PM
From: Krowbar  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
< That was probably the powdered form of nitrogen fertilizer which can explode under the right conditions. One condition is to mix it with diesel fuel as happened in Oklahoma City. >

That would be nitrate, which is a different animal. Nitrogen only exists as a gas above -185 C. at normal pressures.

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