Sandia National Laboratories Non-Detonable Fertilizer
Sandia National Laboratories
In 2012, ammonium nitrate fertilizer was used in about 65 percent of the 16,300 IEDs found in Afghanistan. Engineer Kevin Fleming developed a fertilizer that uses iron sulfite in the mixture to suppress detonation. Sandia chose to keep the formula open-source so that it could more quickly be adopted in developing countries.
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