ammonium nitrate
noun
: a colorless crystalline salt NH4NO3 used in explosives and fertilizers and in veterinary medicine
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That explosion, caused by the ignition of hundreds of tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate, killed more than 200 people and injured over 6,000 others.
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Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
In a conversion process similar to treating waste water, bacteria will be added to create ammonium nitrate, that plants need to grow.
—Claire Poole, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
On the morning of April 19, 1995, a forty-eight-hundred-pound ammonium nitrate–fuel oil bomb exploded in a Ryder truck parked at the north entrance of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 18 Apr. 2025
Fear Grips Lebanon After Deadly Pager and Radio Blasts
The death toll surpassed that of Beirut's devastating port explosion in 2020, when hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse detonated, killing at least 218 people and wounding more than 6,000.
—Bassam Hatoum, Melanie Lidman, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
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Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
In a conversion process similar to treating waste water, bacteria will be added to create ammonium nitrate, that plants need to grow.
—Claire Poole, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
On the morning of April 19, 1995, a forty-eight-hundred-pound ammonium nitrate–fuel oil bomb exploded in a Ryder truck parked at the north entrance of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 18 Apr. 2025
Fear Grips Lebanon After Deadly Pager and Radio Blasts
The death toll surpassed that of Beirut's devastating port explosion in 2020, when hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse detonated, killing at least 218 people and wounding more than 6,000.
—Bassam Hatoum, Melanie Lidman, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Ammonium nitrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ammonium%20nitrate. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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