It's crazy that it's ammonium nitrate.
Straight Ammonium Nitrate:
Oklahoma city Bombing was ammonium nitrate and ~6% diesel fuel(ANFO).
Tannerite is 95% ammonium nitrate and 5% aluminum powder, there's loads of aluminum in a car.
Apparently, ammonium nitrate will liquefy as it absorbs water. It also decomposes into nitrous oxide, ammonia, and nitric acid, which are all either corrosive, volatile, or an oxidizer strong enough to be used as rocket propellant.
But basically, ammonium nitrate is a high explosive, it doesn't burn but instead only detonates. I would think a material that conflagrates like gunpowder, rather than explodes, would be more suitable.
Those airbags are literally explosive. A shaped charge with shrapnel aimed at your face.
Straight Ammonium Nitrate:
Oklahoma city Bombing was ammonium nitrate and ~6% diesel fuel(ANFO).
Tannerite is 95% ammonium nitrate and 5% aluminum powder, there's loads of aluminum in a car.
Apparently, ammonium nitrate will liquefy as it absorbs water. It also decomposes into nitrous oxide, ammonia, and nitric acid, which are all either corrosive, volatile, or an oxidizer strong enough to be used as rocket propellant.
But basically, ammonium nitrate is a high explosive, it doesn't burn but instead only detonates. I would think a material that conflagrates like gunpowder, rather than explodes, would be more suitable.
Those airbags are literally explosive. A shaped charge with shrapnel aimed at your face.