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scoundrel [369]
3 years ago
11

In the spring of 1947 a ship carried ammonium nitrate fertilizer blew up while at a harbor in Texas City, Texas

Chemistry
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nirvana33 [79]3 years ago
6 0

It was a spring morning of April 16, 1947, was a morning that many citizens of Texas City thought was the end of the world. The French Liberty ship, SS Grandcamp, bearing a cargo of ammonium nitrate fertilizer (over 2300 tons) destined for war-torn Europe, caught fire in the Texas City harbor. The bright ... A little after 9.00 a.m., the Texas City Disaster (as it is popularly known) occurred as the ship Grandcamp exploded.

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