Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "Another Potential US Rail Disaster: 30 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate is Missing" video.

  1. That's anhydrous ammonia, not ammonium nitrate. Ammonium nitrate I can buy at Walmart. Anhydrous I can't even get as a farmer with 100 acres of corn.
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  2. Trains are pretty big. I work next to tracks that serve a Dyno Nobel factory, and I see railcars labeled "36,000 gallons hot ammonium nitrate" all the time, a hundred such cars in a row. Occasionally an entire 36k gallon car of nitric acid. Pretty crazy. One railcar filled with water is 300,000lbs.
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