"Forest Fire" responsible for a 2.5mi *mushroom cloud*?

[Major Variola (ret)]

At 06:59 AM 9/14/04 +1200, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>(The nitrate was desensitised with ammonium sulfate and stored outside,

>whenever anyone needed any they'd drill holes and blast off chunks with

>dynamite.

AN is extremely deliquescent; perhaps the sulphate was for that?
Removing chunks with dynamite is trying rather hard for a Darwin award.

When I was a teen I would save the instant-cold packs after soccer
games, and recrystalize the AN within.  It melts and gives off bubbles
but I never collected enough N20 nor did it detonate.