A pale yellow to reddish brown liquid generating red-brown fumes and having a suffocating odor. Very toxic by inhalation. Corrosive to metals or tissue. Prolonged exposure to low concentrations or short term exposure to high concentrations may result in adverse health effects. Nitric Acid is also an oxidizer, a corrosive and used in the manufacturer of chemical weapons. 40,000 gallons from one cache.
Saddam Hussein procured and stored vast quantities of Nitric Acid in his chemical weapons programs. The total quantity is not known, but believed to be in the 100s of tons. Nitric acid is a dual use chemical weapon precursor chemical.
Iraq has a seemingly endless supply of homemade improvised explosive devices, many of which are concocted from urea fertilizer and concentrated nitric acid. They are hard to detect and yet powerful enough to destroy an armored vehicle.
This photo sequence is from July 8-9 and held to prevent terror attack while the material was hauled away.
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