The End Of Fertilizer Bombs

Oklahoma City - Murrah Building- the aftermath of 2 tons of "fertilizer" explosion

New Process Eliminates a Fertilizer’s Blast Threat
-- New York Times

A major chemical company will announce Tuesday that it has found a way to render nitrogen fertilizer useless as an explosive, and improve its value to some crops.

The company, Honeywell, of Morris Township, N.J., has patented a method for combining ammonium nitrate fertilizer with a second type of fertilizer, ammonium sulfate. Ammonium nitrate can be soaked in diesel fuel to produce a powerful bomb and is a favorite of terrorists, but when chemically tied to the ammonium sulfate, its chemical structure is changed so that it is no longer explosive.

Chemists had been looking for ways to render ammonium nitrate nonexplosive since the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was destroyed by a truck bomb in 1995, killing 168.

In 2006, Canadian authorities arrested 17 people who they said were planning to use such bombs in Ontario.

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My Comment: This is a good development. Taking a dangerous product and changing it into a product that can no longer be used as a fertilizer bomb .... but is a more effective fertilizer for crops .... this can only happen in America.