This is raw video footage of a a propane plant explosion and fire in central Florida. The Blue Rhino plant supplies propane cylinders for consumer and industrial use.
An explosion in West, TX, just outside of Waco, spread fires across multiple buildings and injured an unknown number of people earlier tonight.
The explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer Plant shortly before 8 PM CT.
A large number of people have been reported injured, though the number of those killed in the explosion, if any, has not yet been officially released...
The town of West, Texas -- 20 miles north of Waco -- was shaken by devastation Wednesday night (April 17) when a massive explosion occurred at a fertilizer plant around 7:50PM local time.
Here in South Louisiana science plays a big part in what we do. I know we are famous for our food but our other big industries require a lot scientific know how. Where would we be with out scientist in our oil and gas production companies. Or how about the thousands of people that make a living in the medical field?
There is something magical to a man about things that explode. If you get the chance to make the explosion even bigger and you get to keep all of your fingers then so much the better.
If you subscribe to the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus theory made popular in the bookstores then this video is either very interesting to you or very stupid to you. The men will find it fascinating and fun and the women will not see the point.
If I had a teacher like this teaching me chemistry I probably wouldn't have slept as well as I did. This teacher uses the universal theme of pumpkin carving on Halloween and combines it with every kids favorite thing, explosives! This is a really neat demonstration and I bet the kids that were in the class will remember the lesson for many Halloweens to come...
If you have lived through a high school chemistry class you have heard the lecture about being safe in the laboratory. I still remember my high school chemistry teacher telling us about certain chemical combinations that we should never put together in the lab or anywhere. Why? Because stuff like this would happen!