Stored ammonium nitrate “an accident waiting to happen”

As Lebanese authorities blame a stock of 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate for the blast that devastated Beirut, Professor Andrea Sella (UCL Chemistry) says such a quantity left “unattended for six years was an accident waiting to happen”.

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