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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018   
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Not forgetting this stuff is used in airbags as a propellant; and there's hardly a week goes by without a recall by one manufacturer or another. This week's recall:
Alert number: A12/01119/20 Category: Motor vehicles Product: Passenger car Brand: Charade Name: Daihatsu Type / number of model: Unknown Company recall code: WB19001 Production dates: The affected vehicles were manufactured between March and July 2011. Counterfeit: UNKNOWN Risk type: Injuries The ammonium nitrate propellant used in the airbag inflator may experience a material alteration over time due to degradation occurring after prolonged exposure to high absolute humidity, high temperatures and high-temperature cycling. / In the event of an airbag being deployed, it may deploy too slowly or the excessive internal pressure may cause the inflator body to rupture and metal fragments may pass through the cushion material causing injury to the occupants. / Measures taken by economic operators: Recall of the product from end users (By: Distributor) Description: Vehicles are equipped with front passenger air bag inflators which contain a non-desiccated, phase stabilized ammonium nitrate propellant. Country of origin: Japan Alert submitted by: Malta Type of alert: Serious https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/consumers_s...amp;lng=en |
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7th Aug 2020 7:50am |
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| Rashers Member Since: 21 Jun 2015 Location: Norfolk Posts: 3500 
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That kind of publicity is not going to do the neighborhoods house prices a lot of good is it? It's widely used and I often see trucks full of this stuff in polybags floating around the roads. Albeit they are not carrying 2700 tonnes, it makes you wonder what the consequences of a road accident would be, if a fire started? The farms round my way sometimes have barns full of this stuff at certain times of the year. |
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7th Aug 2020 8:18am |
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| Procta Member Since: 03 Dec 2016 Location: Sunderland Posts: 5172
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Looks like trouble has kicked off over there now over this, Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back
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8th Aug 2020 10:53pm |
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| Supacat Member Since: 16 Oct 2012 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 11018
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I found this article informative on the background of the ship and the murky world of flags of convenience :
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Beirut-exp...ping-rules |
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11th Aug 2020 10:43am |
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| walfy Member Since: 29 Aug 2007 Location: Frome Posts: 2658 
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AN fertilizer over a certain % concentration was banned. We, the Army had a bit of kit that could test/sample it and prove/disprove the concentration. I know when I served there, I was on a specialist team and we didn't have the kit then. And that was late 90's, but thats not to say it wasn't available if we requested it 110 D250 SE HT 110 USW SOLD RRE HSE Dynamic Gone, wife killed it VOLVO XC60 R Dynamic with some toys Polaris RZR 900XP SOLD |
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11th Aug 2020 12:50pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17387 
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AN intended for fertilizer also usually has different shaped prills, but I forget if they are more or less aerated. AN is not easy to set off as an explosive and is technically classified as a blasting agent (i.e., requires some form of initiator) and not an explosive.
All of which is no comfort at all to the poor folk of Beirut. The saga of the ship, as told in the link above, is very depressing. |
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11th Aug 2020 3:20pm |
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