Ammonal
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Ammonal is an explosive mixture of ammonium nitrate, aluminium dust and stearic acid. It's misused since it uses ammonium nitrate as oxidizer and aluminium as fuel, but ammonium nitrate is a high explosive itself (though it's hard to detonate). It also has the problem of ammonium nitrate being highly hygroscopic. It burns when open, and detonates when confined.