Park shipped 180 pounds (about 82 kilograms) of ammonium nitrate to Bartkus in January and bought another 90 pounds (about 41 ...

while the red tint suggested a perchlorate or nitrate. An explosion at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada chemical plant in 1988 was partially caused by ammonium perchlorate.

In a first reaction on Sunday ... the Beirut port blast in 2020. That explosion, caused by the ignition of hundreds of tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, killed more than 200 people ...

“This bears the hallmarks of an ammonium nitrate explosion. Ammonium nitrate is ... own without other chemicals having been part of a reaction.” he told CNN. In February CNN reported that ...

Military denies blast involved missile fuel, but offers no explanation for explosion In a first reaction on Sunday ... of tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, killed more than 200 people ...