Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer

[steelslaver]

Next to your electric blasting cap paper bag?

I spilled some nitric acid in a flask of mercury, I tried cleaning up with ethanol and it smoked real bad then left these neat looking crystals. I keep those there upon a shelf. Is that OK?

Just joking. I am pretty careful with chemicals.

Most people don't have a clue how dangerous the stuff in there kitchen cabinet, medicine cabinet or shop is.

I always find it concerning that in the drain cleaner section of the hardware store the sulfuric acid is right there with the sodium hydroxide. I know it says don't mix drain cleaners, but how many people know just what can go wrong. Hey lets just dump some Purex in there too??

 

[redlevel]

More feel good legislation. Only going to stop the total morons.

And create an expensive pain in the buttocks for farmers.

 

[S42N8]

I spilled some nitric acid in a flask of mercury, I tried cleaning up with ethanol and it smoked real bad then left these neat looking crystals. I keep those there upon a shelf. Is that OK?

That right there is better living through chemistry.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Not disputing you, but did you look at the label?
The dealers here say they have AN, but if you check
the label, it is 10% AN and 24% Urea.
Either way, that’s a pretty good price.

34-0-0.......NO UREA.......I farm.........I know what I got.

 

[biku324]

I spilled some nitric acid in a flask of mercury, I tried cleaning up with ethanol and it smoked real bad then left these neat looking crystals. I keep those there upon a shelf. Is that OK?

Just joking. I am pretty careful with chemicals.

Most people don't have a clue how dangerous the stuff in there kitchen cabinet, medicine cabinet or shop is.

I always find it concerning that in the drain cleaner section of the hardware store the sulfuric acid is right there with the sodium hydroxide. I know it says don't mix drain cleaners, but how many people know




Drinking a Coke while dipping pool chlorine out of a bucket is not a great plan either.

 

[llowry61]

Whats so dangerous about it? I have 4 50 lb bags of it stored in the little shed my diesel tank sits on.

I am sure you have a couple of spare oxygen tanks for your welder stored there as well. Don't ya ?

If you fill a pinata with those nifty crysals you will have a bang up time !

 

[pharmer]

I haven't seen the semi-trailers that haul it around here in a couple years. Then again, orange groves and cattle ranches are growing condos and houses these days. Joe

 

[steelslaver]

It just floors me that they think they can somehow control explosives. I mean it might not be a good idea to have boxes of dynamite on the shelf at Ace. But come on, high explosives have been around since the 1840s when Sobrero invented nitro, TNP was around then and TNT is from the 1870s, and you can by toulene in the paint section. Its not rocket science.

Its like putting a taggent in black powder. Really, your going to try to put a identifier in a compound that was figured out over a thousand years ago and can be made with some very common chemicals.

They might stop the guy just smart enough to blow himself up, but an actual terrorist isn't going to be slowed up much.

We have rail cars of the stuff needed moving all around the country.

 

[Chief Wiggums]

Next door neighbor is retired,and has a 1 man business managing lawns. basic upkeep ect... about 2 doz or so.

Uses this..... as do I....
approx $15 a bag - often you can find it on sale for $12 or so.....
lawn , plant beds , the trees.....
keep lots of water on it after you put it down to ensure it gets into the soil....

 

[Steve912]

Uses this..... as do I....
approx $15 a bag - often you can find it on sale for $12 or so.....

Milwaukee's Finest.

What of it?

 

[BigBoy99]

Milwaukee's Finest.

What of it?

Since Milwaukee's Metropolitan Sewerage District is the producer of Milorganite, what do you think it is made of?

 

[andy52]

I'm assuming it's still available here in its liquid form, I've seen a few tanks coming from a elevator- farm supply place and heading to the fields a couple miles from my house.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Funny how people think. I never thought of my ammonium nitrate as a....BOMB.......My thought was this ###!!! is expensive. But you can't make corn and watermelons without it. To me milorginite is a waste of time and $.

 

[swsig]

Decades ago, my high school chemistry teacher asked me what I knew about nitrates. I said that I knew they were cheaper than day rates.

I guess you had to have been there.

 

[keith44spl]

Anhydrous Ammonia, some states & the feds crack down on it and
many states passed additional legislation on handling.

Then the meth cooks discovered ammonia nitrate for a one step cook...

More legislation on that front....So it goes, round and a round...And pop goes the weasel.

The farmers end up paying the fiddler.

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[jag312]

If anyone wants organic fertilizer, not restricted by the Federal Government yet, come on over to my place. I have plenty in the corral. I'll even provide my own manure shovel, or should I say fertilizer shovel.

 

[Steve912]

Since Milwaukee's Metropolitan Sewerage District is the producer of Milorganite, what do you think it is made of?

It's not in same class as what OP is looking for.

 

[llowry61]

If I am not mistaken, large trailers full of liquid AN used to be left in farm fields waiting for use. No one ever bothered them as far as I knew, but this was in the late 60's / early 70's.

 

[biku324]

Funny how people think. I never thought of my ammonium nitrate as a....BOMB.......My thought was this ###!!! is expensive. But you can't make corn and watermelons without it. To me milorginite is a waste of time and $.

Dad's employer taught him to make ANFO for quarrying limestone in the 50s. It was much cheaper, much safer to handle, and you could set it off with quarter sticks of 40% dynamite.

 

[Igiveup]

I've been using Ammonium Sulfate around here. Since retiring, I have sold the cattle, ranch, and gave away the lawn mower to my son. I moved into the mountains, put in a gravel yard, no flowers or bushes, just pine trees, and a couple fruit trees I planted, hence the ammonium sulfate.