At least 11 other fertilizer sellers also store, but don’t blend, the substance, including one facility in Taylor. Experts and officials have theorized that ammonium nitrate played a large role ...

Ammonium nitrate as fertilizer is a bringer of life. But it has certain properties that also can make it a bringer of death, as appears to have happened in the Beirut explosion, which has marked ...

Ammonium nitrate has the chemical formula NH₄NO₃. Produced as small porous pellets, or “prills”, it’s one of the world’s most widely used fertilisers.

Ammonium nitrate was among the chemicals stored in a warehouse in China's northern city of Tianjin that ignited in 2015, triggering a blast that killed at least 165 people and caused over $1 ...

In agriculture, ammonium nitrate fertilizer is applied in granule form and quickly dissolves under moisture, allowing nitrogen — which is key to plant growth — to be released into the soil.

Nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate - taken from a ship off the coast of Beirut six years ago and then stored in a warehouse - has been blamed for the explosion that ripped through the port ...

The ammonium nitrate arrived in Beirut in the fall of 2013 on a Russian-owned cargo ship, the Rhosus, the ship's then-captain, Boris Prokoshev, told NBC News.

Ammonium nitrate can be mixed with other substances to make a bomb. It was used in Irish Republican Army (IRA) bombings in London in the 1990s, the 1995 explosion that blew up a federal building ...

A HUGE explosion erupted in Beirut on August 4 causing 100 deaths and nearly 4,000 injuries. It has been reported that the cause of the explosion in the Lebanon capital was ammonium nitrate. But wh… ...

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Burning ammonium nitrate in an open field, for instance, isn't likely to result in an explosion, Rae said. Additionally, in the explosion, not all of the ammonium nitrate is used up and exploded.