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["Richard MURPHY" <murphman108@msn.com>]

A high explosive, all by it's lonesome.

Diesel supercharges it a little.

 

Google  ANFO  and see what it is. "Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil"

 

A ship full of A.N. off the Texas coast went boom-boom all by itself.

 

Ammonium Nitrate can detonate. Sodium or Potassium Nitrate cannot.

A.N. is also an excellent gas generator. It was used for air-bag deployment at one time.

A.N. does not need to be packed into a case to blow up.

Gunpowder does, because it is a gas generator, not an explosive like A.N.

 

I have used it in some rocket propellant formulae, and on my green vegetables.

Didn't see any different results than 10-10-10 did.

The cheapest dose of Nitrogen fertilizer for the WalMart commando (like me) is lawn fertilizer 28-0-0

And yes, too much will burn the crap out of your plants, really really fast.

(Also watch out; some manufacturers add stuff like sulfur; fine print)

 

I can't really tell you all about Cation Exchange and so forth, but for me the A.N. was an interesting trial

that yielded a "who cares" result.

 

Murph