That's neat. I just saw this:

“If you look at the video (of the Beirut explosion), you saw the black smoke, you saw the red smoke, that was an incomplete reaction,” she said.

“I am assuming that there was a small explosion that instigated the reaction of the ammonium nitrate — whether that small explosion was an accident or something on purpose I haven’t heard yet.”

• Jimmie Oxley, chemistry professor at the University of Rhode Island.

Hopefully, legit info will come out as time progresses.

The chem nerds on the chans were my favourite reads during this! My chem is weak so I love posts like yours, cheers! Keep them coming in the future on relevant stuffs please!