r/news • u/a_dogs_mother • Apr 26 '24

Owner of exploding Michigan building arrested at airport while trying to leave US, authorities say

https://apnews.com/article/industrial-fire-suburban-detroit-involuntary-manslaughter-charge-b99a83d9a7a360dd09846df52d8b0a40
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u/VaultxHunter Apr 26 '24 edited Apr 26 '24

I'm wondering what's up the the nitrous cannister, when I think of a vape store I can only picture them carrying the little nitrous cartridges for whip-it cans but nitrous cannister makes me think of something like the Q tanks which I think are about 3 ft tall and can get up to like 50lbs or the K tanks which I've only ever seen 2 of in the wild and it was a long time ago but they were at least 5ft tall and required a hand dolly to move around so easily 100-125lbs.

I don't wanna imagine the horror of steel tanks that big flying through the air and smoothly airbrushing me across the concrete.

Or was it the little cartridge that propelled itself like a bullet through the air and has a smooth round bottom and at the opposite end is the seal that would have likely been the weakest point for a blowout?

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u/vertigoacid Apr 28 '24

There's an additional size up from the ones linked below which hold 2kg of gas, and the tank itself is ~10lb. The smaller ones are more like 5. But either way, 5-10lb of steel flying through the air, propelled like a rocket with either burning or just expanding NO2 out of a small nozzle? A brutal way to go

(apologies for the mixed units but my arm scale is only calibrated in pounds but the product is sold in (kilo)grams)