Chemical warehouse explosion rocks Guangzhou

04 August 2008 07:57  [Source: ICIS news]

SHANGHAI (ICIS news)--An accident on Sunday evening at a chemical warehouse in south China’s Guangzhou city led to an explosion involving 300 tonnes of chemicals but no casualties were reported, a source from the local fire department said on Monday.

 

“The chemicals involved in the explosion in the warehouse owned by Huaxing Supplies Warehousing and Transportation Company were mainly sodium perchlorate and ammonium perchlorate,” the source added.

 

“Nobody was at work when the accident occurred, so luckily, [there were] no causalities,” she said.

 

The cause of the accident was not clear and was under investigation, she added.

 

Sodium perchlorate and ammonium perchlorate are mainly used for gunpowder production and oxidant.

By: Judith Wang
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