Next Time, Those Fertilizer Bombs Will Fizzle (Not Explode)
2013-04-30
An engineer who trained US soldiers to avoid improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has developed a fertilizer that helps plants grow but can’t detonate the type of bomb that was used in the Boston Marathon. It’s an alternative to ammonium nitrate, an agricultural staple that is also the raw ingredient in most of the IEDs in Afghanistan.
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