00:00What we know so far is that the ammonium nitrate fuel oil was used in the explosion in the Delhi blast that happened at Red Fort on November 10th.
00:07Ammonium nitrate in itself is a stable chemical element. It's a stable chemical compound.
00:13But when you mix fuel oil into it is when it becomes very, very dangerous, very fatal.
00:17The blast wave that happens when an ANFO goes off is around 3,000 to 4,000 meters per second, which is huge.
00:23And that's what we saw even in Delhi that a lot of vehicles in the vicinity in the radius about 20 to 25 meters were shattered.
00:30A lot of glasses were shattered. The metro glass walls were shattered. A lot of destruction happened in Delhi.
00:37Indian government regulates ammonium nitrate because it's very, very much used in fertilizers in agricultural fields.
00:43About 45% is the permissible limit for ammonium nitrate in the fertilizers that is used.
00:48Anything above that is called as explosives.
00:50This would have been a really different situation we would have been talking about at the moment had those 2,900 kilos gone off in Red Fort.
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