ammonium nitrate
noun
: a colorless crystalline salt NH4NO3 used in explosives and fertilizers and in veterinary medicine
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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.
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Bassam Hatoum, Melanie Lidman, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
And although all of Lebanon’s political parties benefited from the port of Beirut’s poor governance and accountability structures, which allowed corruption to flourish, some suspected that Hezbollah was involved in storing over 2,000 tons of ammonium nitrate there, which led to the 2021 explosion.
—Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2024
In the Tianjin port, an initial explosion of nitrocellulose led to a much bigger detonation of eight hundred pounds of ammonium nitrate.
—Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
Inspired by Blood’s curious writings, James followed Humphry Davy’s old protocol, heating a beaker of ammonium nitrate in the Harvard chemistry laboratory, capturing the escaping gas, and inhaling deeply with pen and paper in hand.
—Oshan Jarow, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Bassam Hatoum, Melanie Lidman, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
And although all of Lebanon’s political parties benefited from the port of Beirut’s poor governance and accountability structures, which allowed corruption to flourish, some suspected that Hezbollah was involved in storing over 2,000 tons of ammonium nitrate there, which led to the 2021 explosion.
—Maha Yahya, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2024
In the Tianjin port, an initial explosion of nitrocellulose led to a much bigger detonation of eight hundred pounds of ammonium nitrate.
—Hazlitt, 23 Oct. 2024
Inspired by Blood’s curious writings, James followed Humphry Davy’s old protocol, heating a beaker of ammonium nitrate in the Harvard chemistry laboratory, capturing the escaping gas, and inhaling deeply with pen and paper in hand.
—Oshan Jarow, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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“Ammonium nitrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ammonium%20nitrate. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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