AP
A massive explosion and fire rocked a port Saturday in southern Iran purportedly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant, killing 25 people and injuring around 800 others.
Helicopters and aircraft dumped water from the air on the raging fire through the night into Sunday morning at the Shahid Rajaei port. The explosion occurred just as Iran and the United States met Saturday in Oman for the third round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. More
Allahu AkBOOM
BBC was speculating last night that this might cause food shortages. I haven’t seen any estimates of how much this will reduce this port’s capacity.
I wonder how the Houthis in Yemen and Hezbullah in Lebanon are going to keep shooting their rockets now that all this solid rocket fuel has gone Kaboom!
Food shortage huh? Why not send them Governor Pritzker’s daily intake?
It’s SUUNDAY! SUUNDAY! SUUNDAY!
Be there for the ground pounding, heart-stopping explosions of chaos and mayhem!
Muzzies flying everywhere up the quarter mile of death!
Be there when they go from zero to allahwallabingbang screaming thru the burning gates of Hell to shake hands with the devil!
We’ll sell you the whole seat, but you’ll only need the eeeeeedddge!
!! BE THERE !!
That’s unfortunate.
Negotiations ongoing. Background message sent.
What a shame.
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The tossed water on sodium perchlorate? Are they !!?$! idiots?
I used to work with perchloric acid which has hydrogen in place of the sodium, and I think can only exist dissolved in water. It’s very touchy stuff! Any organic material and perchlorate is basically rocket fuel. Tossing water on the sodium salt just dissolves it, and lets it soak into the structure which will be a never ending source of what we used to call “perchloric surprise” in my lab. And trust me the surprises were always loud, and broke a lot of glassware.
Just for understanding:
NaClO4 + H2O -> Na+ + ClO4- in solution. The ClO4- bit would much rather be Cl- + 4 O’s reacting with anything that can make that happen… It will literally make your fingernails explosive! The sodium salt is made for transportation. The Na+ is already oxidized, so provides no fuel, and its trivial to substitute. The next production step is to substitute that with ammonia, creating NH3CLO4, which is the primary component of the Space Shuttle’s solid rocket fuel. Which you may remember, used to be produced in Henderson, Nevada at PEPCON.
You can find lots of video’s on YT about PEPCON’s May 1988 “rapid unscheduled disassembly”.
KR
Harry, Almost lost my tea through my schnoz reading your comment!
“Tossing water on the sodium salt just dissolves it, and lets it soak into the structure… ”
I was reading something similar from an Iranian (not living there) woman.
It was before I moved there, but I remember the PEPCON thing-The sound and the air was coming in waves. It even cracked windows and popped doors open a few miles away. Insane. (I saw the original video.)
That whole area is no longer empty. It is built up and there are houses and warehouses everywhere.
Geni – Sorry ’bout that 😬 😐 😆
that Blow’d up real good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKWn6oPj-c&t=172s