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An Idaho company will operate a new factory to manufacture a type of fertilizer that will be less useful in making bombs, the product?s inventor, Honeywell, announced on Friday.
Bombs made from ordinary fertilizer have been used around the world. They destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 and damaged the World Trade Center in 1993. Most recently, fertilizer bombs have been used against United States forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and fertilizer is suspected to be a component of a fatal bomb used at a government center in Oslo in July.
Honeywell, based in Morris Township, N.J., patented the new fertilizer in 2008. It combines the traditional ammonium nitrate with ammonium sulfate, significantly reducing its ability to explode. But so far, the fertilizer has not been manufactured.
More info at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/b...ul-in-creating-bombs.html?_r=1&ref=fertilizer
Bombs made from ordinary fertilizer have been used around the world. They destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 and damaged the World Trade Center in 1993. Most recently, fertilizer bombs have been used against United States forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and fertilizer is suspected to be a component of a fatal bomb used at a government center in Oslo in July.
Honeywell, based in Morris Township, N.J., patented the new fertilizer in 2008. It combines the traditional ammonium nitrate with ammonium sulfate, significantly reducing its ability to explode. But so far, the fertilizer has not been manufactured.
More info at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/b...ul-in-creating-bombs.html?_r=1&ref=fertilizer