Ammonium Nitrate
Overview
Ammonium nitrate (uh-MOH-ni-um NYE-trate) is a white crystalline substance first made artificially in 1659 by the German chemist Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604–1670). The...
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The House voted Tuesday to require the registration of sales and purchases of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which has been converted into the explosive of choice for terrorists ranging from the Okla...
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Zamboanga City, Philippines (dpa) - Philippine troops on Tuesday
seized explosive chemicals that would allegedly be used by
al-Qaeda-linked Muslim militants in planned bomb ...
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A truck carrying ammonium nitrate to a mine caught fire after a highway crash and blew up, killing at least 34 people and injuring some 150, state and federal officials reported Monday.Authorities ...
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A truck carrying ammonium nitrate to a mine caught fire after a highway crash and blew up, killing at least 28 people and injuring some 150, state and federal officials reported Monday.Authorities ...
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The average chicken farmer does not have enough chemicals to make his farm a terrorist target, but many fertilizer wholesalers and paper mills do — and they'll have to tell the government abo...
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Manila (dpa) - Some 200 kilos of chemical explosives were seized
Tuesday by joint police and military forces in a southern Philippine
city amid persistent threats of bomb at...
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New Delhi (dpa) - Several towns in India's northern Uttar Pradesh
state were on high alert Wednesday following a series of blasts and
the discovery of explosives at a railwa...
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Turkish troops killed four Kurdish guerrillas in a southeastern province Wednesday, a day after police defused a bomb in the capital that authorities believe may have been planted by separatist reb...
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Oklahoma City mourners on Thursday marked the 12th anniversary of the bombing that killed 168 people here by reaching out to victims of the Virginia Tech shootings and victims of violence everywher...
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