How to Use ammonium nitrate in a Sentence

ammonium nitrate

noun

• The company used ammonium nitrate to inflate the air bags in a crash.
  — CBS News, 5 May 2023
• Not prohibiting ammonium nitrate being used in these bags in sinful.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2018
• Not prohibiting ammonium nitrate being used in these bags is sinful.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2018
• Takata uses the chemical ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion and fill air bags quickly in a crash.
  — Samantha Masunaga, latimes.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Takata uses ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion to inflate air bags.
  — Tom Krisher, The Seattle Times, 12 Feb. 2018
• The company uses the chemical ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion and fill air bags quickly in a crash.
  — Tom Krisher, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2018
• Lombardo said several pounds of ammonium nitrate, a material used to make explosives, was found in the car.
  — CBS News, 12 Jan. 2018
• Takata uses the chemical ammonium nitrate to create small explosions to inflate air bags.
  — Yuri Kageyama, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2018
• The middle of the cylinder is filled with a powdered mixture of ammonium perchlorate and ammonium nitrate, the oxidants.
  — The Economist, 31 May 2018
• Unlike most air-bag makers, Takata uses ammonium nitrate to trigger a small explosion that inflates the air bag when the vehicle strikes something.
  — Ashley Halsey Iii, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
• Liquid urea-ammonium nitrate was being carried in a barge that suffered a tank collapse in Cincinnati early Tuesday morning.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 20 Dec. 2017
• The blast was in fact at the port of Beirut, caused by a stockpile of ammonium nitrate stored there for years.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2020
• Some 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been left lying around at the Beirut port caught fire, and a blast ripped through the city.
  — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2020
• No one had taken action to secure 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a hangar in the city’s port.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2020
• The blast tore through the city with such force it was felt across the country — the result of tons of ammonium nitrate igniting after a fire broke out at the port.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2021
• The 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate that gave the Beirut blast an incredible force had been stored at the port in downtown Beirut for six years.
  — CNN, 6 Sep. 2020
• Much of the country blamed the government for the blast, which was caused by the improper storage of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate.
  — Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2021
• But three years on and what caused the ammonium nitrate to ignite remains a mystery.
  — Eyad Kourdi, CNN, 4 Aug. 2023
• The blast was caused by nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been improperly stored at the port for years.
  — Bloomberg.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• Back on the island, one of the men lit a gas burner under a pan and used his bare hand to stir a splash of kerosene into white beads of solid ammonium nitrate.
  — Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 15 June 2018
• The blast was caused by a fire that ignited a stash of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate left unattended for more than six years in a warehouse.
  — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2021
• The investigation is focused on how the ammonium nitrate came to be stored at the port and why nothing was done about it.
  — Bassem Mroue, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2020
• The blast, which was caused by the ignition of a stockpile of ammonium nitrate in a port warehouse, caused billions of dollars worth of damage.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2020
• The cause of the fire that ignited nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate stored at Beirut's port remains unclear.
  — Sarah El Deeb, Star Tribune, 16 Aug. 2020
• Takata used volatile ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion to fill air bags in a crash.
  — Tom Krisher, Detroit Free Press, 23 Nov. 2020
• The blast has since been linked to a warehouse where 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate was stored improperly for years.
  — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
• The cause of the fire that ignited nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate at Beirut’s port remains unclear.
  — Andrea Rosa, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2020
• The cause of the fire that ignited nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate at Beirut's port remains unclear.
  — CBS News, 15 Aug. 2020
• The explosion was caused by 2,750 tons of the volatile chemical ammonium nitrate that had been improperly stored in a warehouse at the port for six years.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• Takata used volatile ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion to inflate air bags in a crash.
  — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Aug 2024