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Bombing Palm Springs fertility clinic

I thought gas line too but they're saying it was a car bomb.

There may be a bomb involved, IDK (they say so), but I can guarantee the amount of liquid nitrogen in there is contributory. There are probably several 30-50 gallon dewars in that building. The regulations are steep for a 20L dewar...

Michigan Technological University, Department of Physics Liquid Nitrogen Safety
Adapted from Department of Chemical Engineering Safety Manual and: http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/microengineering/ln2.html
Properties of Liquid Nitrogen (LN2)
  1. It is extremely cold: 77.3K = -196C = -320F at atmospheric pressure. This can cause severe frost bite
  2. On vaporization it expands by a factor of 700; one liter of liquid nitrogen becomes 24.6 cubic feet of nitrogen gas. This can cause explosion of a sealed container, or it can displace oxygen in the room and cause suffocation without warning.
  3. It can become oxygen enriched and cause ordinarily noncombustible materials to burn rapidly.


Those exterior walls look blown from inside out...
 
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There may be a bomb involved, IDK (they say so), but I can guarantee the amount of liquid nitrogen in there is contributory. There are probably several 30-50 gallon dewars in that building. The regulations are steep for a 20L dewar...

Michigan Technological University, Department of Physics Liquid Nitrogen Safety
Adapted from Department of Chemical Engineering Safety Manual and: http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/microengineering/ln2.html
Properties of Liquid Nitrogen (LN2)
  1. It is extremely cold: 77.3K = -196C = -320F at atmospheric pressure. This can cause severe frost bite
  2. On vaporization it expands by a factor of 700; one liter of liquid nitrogen becomes 24.6 cubic feet of nitrogen gas. This can cause explosion of a sealed container, or it can displace oxygen in the room and cause suffocation without warning.
  3. It can become oxygen enriched and cause ordinarily noncombustible materials to burn rapidly.


Those exterior walls look blown from inside out...

So your saying that inside the fertility clinic there was......... an explosive load?
 
I'd have a hard time believing liquid nitrogen did that, I worked with it quite a bit and did the facility/engineering work for a 500 gallon liquid storage setup with cryo pumps, evap tower, and high pressure gas storage system.

It doesn't expand fast enough for that without a massive amount of heat, doing the initial flush and full we made it snow when it was 100 degrees out but it took a surprising amount of time to cook off the liquid with a huge evap tower.
 
I'd have a hard time believing liquid nitrogen did that, I worked with it quite a bit and did the facility/engineering work for a 500 gallon liquid storage setup with cryo pumps, evap tower, and high pressure gas storage system.

It doesn't expand fast enough for that without a massive amount of heat, doing the initial flush and full we made it snow when it was 100 degrees out but it took a surprising amount of time to cook off the liquid with a huge evap tower.

I suggested it was liquid nitrogen with either gas line or a bomb together. Liquid nitrogen adds flare.
LN2can go boom by itself.:

 
Vehicle was parked at scorch mark when the explody thing went boom (blast is 360° from that spot). (That might be the vehicle's rear axle laying there.)
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Blast took path of least resistance through bldg. to blow out the street-facing doors. Blast also throws vehicle across lot away from bldg.
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Whatever it was wasn't a super-high-speed energetic as there's lots of the vehicle and the bldg. left. It was enough, obviously, to create the over-pressure to bend things/shove things around. Coulda wrecked the bldg. more if the blast had been directed more into the structure instead of being allowed to go outwards.
 
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I'd have a hard time believing liquid nitrogen did that, I worked with it quite a bit and did the facility/engineering work for a 500 gallon liquid storage setup with cryo pumps, evap tower, and high pressure gas storage system.

It doesn't expand fast enough for that without a massive amount of heat, doing the initial flush and full we made it snow when it was 100 degrees out but it took a surprising amount of time to cook off the liquid with a huge evap tower.

A LN2 explosion killed 6 in Georgia and leveled all structures- homes and businesses - within 400M in another (NZ or AU).
 
Did anyone see Tim M?
he was channeled FS. dude didn't enroll in the bomb class offered by the goat fuckers. LN can go boom? didn't know. i can sat that it is a real goo thing that ether and cyclopropane are not used in anesthesia anymore. those are violently unstable and explosive. would present a serious risk of psycho or terrorist threat. doubt they are even available anywhere anymore except maybe for the FBI or CIA activity.
 
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