Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Cost of Penny Pinching: The Port Neal Fertiliser Disaster 1994 | Plainly Difficult Documentary" video.

  1. Technically it's an oxidizer so it makes things around it spontaneously combust. Even things you don't think are flammable like solid steel
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  2. The power plant is more likely to blow itself up than to be blown up by a neighbor
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  3. It's the same reason people keep texting while driving
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  4. Just an unholy amount of f bombs
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  5. You?
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  6. That was ammonium nitrate that was being stored incorrectly. There are many fertilizers
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  7. It's cheap, it's nitrogen, it's an oxidizer
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  8. Terrorists like ammonium nitrate because it is cheap and plentiful
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  9. That wouldn't make a difference. The people who text while driving would totally take mild risks to avoid a major cost
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  10. @jed-henrywitkowski6470  not all of it
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  11. It's among the most common industrial chemicals in existence and a lot of them are mildly toxic and/or oxidizers
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  12. ​@PovidisII depends on what the soil needs. But for nitrogen the most common there's ammonia which is the chemical responsible for the stink/hazards of pee, and there is ammonium nitrate which is an oxidizer meaning it can turn any flammable liquid into an explosive (very common in improvized explosives).
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