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Oppau explosion
1921 industrial disaster in present-day Ludwigshafen, Germany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Oppau explosion occurred on September 21, 1921, when approximately 4,500 metric tons of a mixture of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate fertilizer stored in a tower silo exploded at a BASF plant in Oppau, now part of Ludwigshafen, Germany, killing 500–600 people and injuring about 2,000 more
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