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DragoonDart t1_jdmj1ut wrote

Reply to comment by NotYourDad75 in Palmer’s in Reading exploded and was ablaze, most articles still not saying much :( by vintageideals

So is flour. So is grain. Saying “Sugar is an explosive” is a shock/clickbait statement because it ignores the very specific context needed to make it explode.

You’re not wrong; but if you light a match next to your household sugar in a Tupperware container it’s not going to go up like the Hindenburg or at all really. That’s why it’s disingenuous and that’s my issue with the statement

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-js23 t1_jdmqjjs wrote

No, but if it is in a factory and enough fine particles are kicked up and mixed with the oxygen in the air, it can easily become an explosive. But it also could have easily have been a gas leak as much of that infrastructure is aging.

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