ammonium nitrate

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Ammonium nitrate

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ammonium nitrate (uncountable)

  1. (inorganic chemistry) The ammonium salt of nitric acid, NH4NO3; it is used in fertilizers and explosives (notoriously in improvised explosive devices, though its main importance is as an explosive in its own right and in mixtures such as amatol and ANFO).
    • 2020 August 5, John Ismay, “What Is Ammonium Nitrate, Blamed in the Beirut Explosion?”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:
      According to the Lebanese government, about 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer was stored in a warehouse on the Beirut waterfront and caught fire, later exploding.

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