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backscatter712

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7. Ammonium Nitrate/Fuel Oil: A type of explosive.
Wed Sep 18, 2013, 09:15 PM
Sep 2013

It's what Timothy McVeigh used to destroy the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma. He had a moving truck full of drums of the stuff.

Mix diesel fuel with fertilizer, set it off with a couple sticks of dynamite - you can get a very big boom.

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