Chemistry can be complicated, but it can also be simple. A good rule of thumb is not to store your fire right next to your highly combustible materials.
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Jeez it just hit me that I was alive when happened. I still remember waking up that morning and switching on my phone to see the headlines… 🙁
Your description of the Texas City Disaster is very similar to the Halifax explosion which was the biggest explosion before the nuclear bomb was used in WWII.
How did Halifax not make this list
why tf would you smoke near ammonium nitrate….
terrible events, but the fact that the tank from the first story got up to 20times its intended prerssure before exploding is nontheless pretty impressive!
“Amoco Cadiz contained 1,604,500 barrels (219,797 tons) of light crude oil from Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia and Kharg Island, Iran. Severe weather resulted in the complete breakup of the ship before any oil could be pumped out of the wreck, resulting in her entire cargo of crude oil (belonging to Shell) and 4,000 tons of fuel oil being spilled into the sea. The US NOAA estimates that the total oil spill amounted to 220,880 metric tonnes of oil.”
LENGTH: 334.02 m (1,095.9 ft) BEAM: =WIDTH 51.06 m (167.5 ft) DRAUGHT= WIDTH 19.80 m (65.0 ft)
AFTERMATH
“In 1988 a U.S. federal judge ordered Amoco Oil Corporation to pay $85.2 million in fines; $45 million for the costs of the spill and $39 million in interest. In 1992, Amoco agreed to pay $230 million.”
The site is visited by leisure divers.”
Japan's name is mentioned in every kind of list about disasters and war crimes!! both as the victim and the criminal!!!
38,000kg in new Zealand is 38 tons but in America
Industrial age will kill life on earth. Earth will be cool though.
You missed the biggest one. The Wanggongchang gunpower factory in China exploded in 1626 and killed over 20,000 people.
Some men was kept alive for days in pain and there skin coming of in big strips so they could see what will happen so they could study him till his end
Ship like this should never be allowed to travel the seas again ever no chemicals ships should never be aloud on the sea ever it’s not worth it
Somebody Really needs to take Ammonium Nitrate Seriously
Excellent.
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2:48 Wow, justice served
so they killed thousands of people(directly or indirect doesnt matter) and were only getting 2 years with option to bail? must be great to be a ceo…
Texas City – they didn't know of the explosive potential of diesel and Ammonium Nitrate at that time.
Also, I think these days it’s debatable whether Chernobyl was the worst after the 2011 earthquake/tsunami in Japan that caused the nuclear reactor there to meltdown as well. Although a lot of the radiation leakage went into the sea, there was generally considered to be a lot more radioactive damage.
Screw it. I’m going full Spongebob every April from now on. Meet my friends, this is Chip, Penny, and of course… Used Napkin. ?
I’m a survivor from Beirut port explosion
Surprised you didn’t touch on the Halifax explosion.
Pripyat wasn't deserted at the time of the meltdown. It was abandoned as a result of the meltdown.
honestly, the nitrate explosion was well deserved, terrorist weapons production should be celebrated when its destroyed
2:04 38.000kg = 42 tons? ammmm??
Here is a disaster that was thankfully too small to make this list, but could have been so much worse: In 1927, a huge natural gas storage tank on Pittsburgh's North Side exploded. 28 people were killed, but the destruction was massive. The tank actually shot at least 100 feet into the air before exploding, and at the time, it was the world's largest.