At least 6,000 residents in the North Carolina city have been asked to evacuate the area during the active fire. "Now is the time to get out," Winston-Salem Fire Chief Trey Mayo said.
Ammonium nitrate is an oxidizer for everything else basically, so it depends on what else is around. There's a fuck load of fertilizer that can go up with it so actually estimating what can happens is difficult.
Big boom is the point, but yeah it's not an accurate way to figure this out
There's a program that estimates the blast radius based on kilotons
....know what? Sure. That's why I needed it.
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https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Isn't that based on KTs of TNT? A quick search tells me that ammonium nitrate is 40% as powerful as TNT.
Ammonium nitrate is an oxidizer for everything else basically, so it depends on what else is around. There's a fuck load of fertilizer that can go up with it so actually estimating what can happens is difficult.
Big boom is the point, but yeah it's not an accurate way to figure this out