A gigantic amount of ammonium nitrate recently exploded in Beirut, killing hundreds, injuring thousands while causing catastrophic damage. Chemically, it's not at all surprising that ammonium nitrate ...

About 30 tons of ammonium nitrate disappeared from a rail car on a train traveling to California in April. The chemical compound is used in fertilizers and explosives and can be dangerous to store.

TEXAS CITY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/CNN) - The explosion in Beirut that created a huge mushroom cloud and registered as a magnitude 3.3 earthquake is being compared to two agricultural fertilizer explosions ...

The Lebanese capital Beirut was rocked on Tuesday evening local time by an explosion that has killed at least 78 people and injured thousands more. The country’s prime minister Hassan Diab said the ...

(Reuters) - Lebanese authorities said 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate had been stored for years at the Beirut port without safety measures. That stockpile exploded on Tuesday, killing more than 150 ...

Gabriel da Silva, senior lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, on what triggered the explosion in the Lebanese capital. The Lebanese capital Beirut was rocked on Tuesday ...