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ANFO, ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. See explosive explosive, substance that undergoes decomposition or combustion with great rapidity, evolving much heat and producing a large volume of gas. The reaction products fill a much greater volume than that occupied by the original material and exert an enormous pressure, ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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ominously, it reports that Hollaway "was able to provide technical
details concerning [McVeigh's] truck bomb and ANFO (ammonium
nitrate/fuel oil) . For example, he
determined that the Oklahoma City bomb was composed of ANFO, ammonium
nitrate and fuel oil, not from chemical analysis but from a speculative
judgment based on ``the fact that one of the defendants purchased ANFO
components. The government's star witness in the federal OKC trials,
Michael Fortier, testified that a few months before the Oklahoma
bombing, McVeigh and Nichols had failed in attempting to detonate even a
small milk carton of ANFO explosive. |
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