It’s been one week since several tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in Beirut, Lebanon, ... For example, it's in cold packs you can find at your drugstore.

Ammonium nitrate is used as an agricultural fertilizer, to manufacture first aid products such as cold packs, and in explosives for the mining and construction industries, according to the US ...

Ammonium nitrate on its own is not itself classified as dangerous. PARIS and LONDON -- An explosion at a warehouse stocked with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the Beirut port changed the face ...

About 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate was lost while being shipped. KQED Ammonium nitrate was the main ingredient in Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 bomb in Oklahoma City. AP ...

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 ...

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.

The ammonium nitrate travelled from Wyoming in a sealed car that was still sealed when it arrived in California. By Erin Marquis May 22, 2023 10:20 am EST. Bing ...

Ammonium nitrate was the main suspected chemical in a Texas explosion that killed 14 people in April 2013. The explosion at West Fertilizer Co. also injured more than 200 and left at least 50 ...

An estimated 30 tons of highly volatile ammonium nitrate disappeared from a railcar traveling last month between Wyoming and the Mojave Desert in California. Frequently used as a fertilizer, the ...

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 ...

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.

A fire at a North Carolina fertilizer plant packed with nearly 600 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate continued to burn on Wednesday, forcing roughly 6,500 residents in the immediate area ...