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Many Americans were introduced to the dangers of ammonium nitrate from the destruction of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla. by white supremacists in 1995.

The ammonium nitrate arrived in Beirut in the fall of 2013 on a Russian-owned cargo ship, the Rhosus, the ship's then-captain, Boris Prokoshev, told NBC News.

Ammonium nitrate, which is used in fertilizer and explosives, has been responsible for a number of incidents, including the 2020 Beirut explosion, which saw a large quantity of the substance ...

Ammonium nitrate fertilizer use in the U.S. has fallen from 2 million tons per year two decades ago to less than a million today. But at some $500 per ton, its sales still generate a lot of money.

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He had created a process to desensitize ammonium nitrate by adding small amounts of another chemical. After Oklahoma City, the National Research Council looked into the idea at the request of the ATF.

The investigation into an explosion in the harbor of Lebanon’s port city of Beirut is focusing on how 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate came to be stored at the facility for six years, and why ...

Ammonium nitrate is still used in areas like Central Texas that have alkaline soils, because it works better, says Theo Udeigwe, a professor of soil chemistry at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.