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...writing, in 2013, this remains the worst industrial accident in US history. In 2013 at Waco in Texas, a large explosion occurred at a fertiliser plant that stored ammonium nitrate. Today, ammonium nitrate is used extensively in industrial explosives and propellants. For instance, commercial blasting explosive contains ammonium nitrate, fuel oil and TNT. Video 4 shows that...

...write down some simple mathematics, and work with and generate some insights. So it’s this sort of stripped down mathematical description of the essence of things that you can then embody a computer code with. So you can put the system of simple equations or perhaps quite complex equations into a computer programme and you can then set the programme to go to watch the...