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    ANFO (/ˈænfoʊ/ AN-foh) (or AN/FO, for ammonium nitrate/fuel oil) is a widely used bulk industrial high explosive. It consists of 94% porous prilled ammonium...
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    Anfo (Brescian: Anf; Latin: Damphus) is a comune in the province of Brescia in northern Italy, roughly halfway between Milan and Venice. It is in the Lombardy...
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    mining, quarrying, and civil construction. It is the major constituent of ANFO, a popular industrial explosive which accounts for 80% of explosives used...
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    Sands Missile Range in the state of New Mexico, for which 4,744 tons of ANFO explosive (ammonium nitrate and fuel oil), equivalent to 4 kilotons of TNT...
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  • mixtures of ammonium nitrate prills (fertilizer pellets) and fuel oil (ANFO) and gelatinous suspensions or slurries of ammonium nitrate and combustible...
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    its weight in pounds times its strength in relation to an equal amount of ANFO (the civilian baseline standard) or TNT (the military baseline standard)...
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  • Mexico. This test, named Minor Scale, used 4,744 short tons (4,304 t) of ANFO, with a yield of about 4 kt (3,900 long tons; 4,400 short tons). Misty Picture...
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    The explosive consisted of 4685 tons of an Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil (ANFO) mixture loaded in bulk into a 44-foot (13 m) radius fiberglass hemisphere...
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    Lonato; Bonoris Castle; Castle of Desenzano; Castle of Breno; Fortress of Anfo; Castle of Padenghe; Castle of Padernello; Castle of Pozzolengo; Castle of...
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    ammonium nitrate 58.6% aluminium powder 21% charcoal 2.4% TNT 18% Amatol ANFO BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter" Tritonal Tweedie, N. (12 January 2004). "Farmer who...
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    Rocca d'Anfo (English: Rock of Anfo or Fort Anfo) is an historic military fortification in Anfo (now in Brescia, northern Italy) adjacent to Lake Idro...
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    that of a hammer. The most commonly used explosives in mining today are ANFO based blends due to lower cost than dynamite. Before the advent of tunnel...
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  • west coast of France Le Bois-Plage-en-Ré, a commune on that island Re di Anfo, a torrent (seasonal stream) in Italy Re di Gianico, Re di Niardo, Re di...
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  • mining and manufacturing to refer to a product that has been pelletized. ANFO explosive typically comprises ammonium nitrate prills mixed with #2 fuel...
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    and at the northeastern end of the Valle Sabbia. Bordering communes are Anfo, Bagolino, Bondone, Capovalle, Lavenone, Treviso Bresciano and Valvestino...
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  • among them being Cement Mix-Up, where they "vaporized" a cement truck with ANFO. At the moment of a large enough meteor or comet impact, bolide detonation...
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    and Gymnasium, also known as the Red Gym; and the 1970 late-summer predawn ANFO bombing of the Army Mathematics Research Center in Sterling Hall, killing...
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    weapon in the Republic was explosives (including gelignite, fertiliser, and ANFO), which were responsible for the vast majority of the bombings in Northern...
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    (The Caffaro enters Lake Idro which empties into the Chiese.) Re di Anfo (The Re di Anfo enters Lake Idro which empties into the Chiese.) Mincio Sarca (The...
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    need 1.0/1.66 (or 0.60) kg to obtain the same effects as 1 kg of TNT. With ANFO or ammonium nitrate, they would require 1.0/0.74 (or 1.35) kg or 1.0/0.32...
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  • deliver sufficient shock to detonate charges comprising TNT, Composition B, ANFO and many other high explosives. Therefore, some form of "booster" is required...
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    The Re di Anfo is a stream (or torrente) in the Province of Brescia, Lombardy. Its source is on Cima Meghè and it flows into Lago d'Idro at Anfo on the western...
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  • the amount of ammonium nitrate consumed in the disaster in metric tonnes. ANFO (Ammonium nitrate bomb) Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions, many of...
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  • Triggering sequences are used in the mining industry for the detonation of ANFO and other cheap, bulk, and insensitive explosives that cannot be fired by...
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    Idro (the frazioni Crone and Lemprato), from which the lake takes its name, Anfo, Bagolino (fraz. Ponte Caffaro) and Bondone (fraz. Baitoni). Lake Idro currently...
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    sensitised gels, etc.) but will not initiate less sensitive blasting agents like ANFO on its own. 25 to 50 grain/foot (5.3 to 10.6 g/m) detonation cord has approximately...
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  • Ellen's death, Tak occupies the body of a golden eagle. The group gather some ANFO to blow up the well from which Tak escaped. Tak attacks David, but kills...
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  • "Rackarock", and ANFO ammonium nitrate (oxidiser) mixed with a fuel oil (fuel), normally diesel, kerosene, or nitromethane. Eventually ANFO supplanted all...
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    000 kg) of ANFO (ammonium nitrate/fuel oil) he found at the scene, as he did not believe it was powerful enough (he did obtain 17 bags of ANFO from another...
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    "Chem Lab: Spray-On Test for Improvised Explosives". Wired. "Explosives - ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate - Fuel Oil)". GlobalSecurity.org. Almog J, Burda G, Shloosh...
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