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Mercury Plant

It was getting dark
as if night had hit
and no one had ever mentioned it,
we were sitting in an old warehouse
drinking coffee and watching the light fade,
this was a place where they make TNT
for gold mining in Brazil
and closing oil wells down in the Gulf,
a bunch of ex-Nazis started it around 1948
they're all gone now
but some Mexicans took it over in the 1990s,
no one smokes here
you light a match
and someone will shoot you,
last week a few boxes disappeared
we're still wondering where all that TNT went to

Trinitrotoluene (pronounced /ˌtraɪnaɪtrɵˈtɒljʉ.iːn/; famously known and abbreviated as TNT), or more specifically, 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3. This yellow-coloured solid is sometimes used as a reagent in chemical synthesis, but it is best known as a useful explosive material with convenient handling properties. The explosive yield of TNT is considered to be the standard measure of strength of bombs and other explosives. In chemistry, TNT is used to generate charge transfer salts.

Description
Mercury Plant

It was getting dark
as if night had hit
and no one had ever mentioned it,
we were sitting in an old warehouse
drinking coffee and watching the light fade,
this was a place where they make TNT
for gold mining in Brazil
and closing oil wells down in the Gulf,
a bunch of ex-Nazis started it around 1948
they're all gone now
but some Mexicans took it over in the 1990s,
no one smokes here
you light a match
and someone will shoot you,
last week a few boxes disappeared
we're still wondering where all that TNT went to

Trinitrotoluene (pronounced /ˌtraɪnaɪtrɵˈtɒljʉ.iːn/; famously known and abbreviated as TNT), or more specifically, 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3. This yellow-coloured solid is sometimes used as a reagent in chemical synthesis, but it is best known as a useful explosive material with convenient handling properties. The explosive yield of TNT is considered to be the standard measure of strength of bombs and other explosives. In chemistry, TNT is used to generate charge transfer salts.