Potassium chlorate is an odorless white crystal or powder that, when combined with a fuel, forms an explosive mixture. Ammonium nitrate fertilizer, meanwhile, requires several steps to transform ...

Currently, 47 percent of roadside bombs are made with ammonium nitrate fertilizer, with about ten percent using old shells and bombs from the 1980s and the rest potassium chlorate. Over the last few ...

Ammonium perchlorate, one of the three main ingredients of the space shuttle’s solid rocket booster fuel, can give off gases that burn the lungs so severely that victims drown in their body ...