Ammonium nitrate, also known as ammonia nitrate, is in the form of light granules. Since it is well soluble in water and contains a lot of nitrogen, it is widely used in agriculture as a fertilizer.

Ammonium nitrate, also known as ammonia nitrate, exists as light granules. Since it is well soluble in water and contains a lot of nitrogen, it is widely used in agriculture as a fertilizer.

The railcar, loaded with more than 60,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, left Cheyenne, Wyoming on April 12, a Union Pacific spokesperson told USA TODAY Tuesday. Two weeks later it was found empty at ...

Explosives company Dyno Nobel reported the vanishing ammonium nitrate — the main ingredient in Timothy McVeigh’s 1995 bomb in Oklahoma City — to the federal National Response Center on May ...

The chemical, ammonium nitrate, is relatively harmless by itself but has caused deadly explosions in industrial accidents and has been used in targeted attacks. By Amanda Holpuch and Joshua ...

A 30-ton shipment of ammonium nitrate disappeared from a railcar, KQED reported. The chemical is used to make both fertilizer and explosives. The chemical's supplier said that it thought the ...

Thirty tons of ammonium nitrate, a powerful explosive, vanished on a two-week rail shipment from Wyoming to California. A railcar laden with the chemical left an explosives plant in Cheyenne on ...

by ammonium nitrate. Granular mixtures made, inter alia, from ammonium nitrate and superphosphate (a mixture of monocalcium phosphate and calcium sulphate) have been found to undergo spontaneous ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. An estimated 30 tons of highly volatile ammonium nitrate disappeared ...

Ammonium nitrate, which is used in fertilizer and explosives, has been responsible for a number of incidents, including the 2020 Beirut explosion, which saw a large quantity of the substance ...

Approximately 61,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as both fertilizer and an ingredient in explosives, went missing when it was shipped by rail from Wyoming to California last month ...