The colossal explosion in Lebanon’s capital this week was apparently caused when more than 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly volatile chemical, detonated. The stockpile had been left for years ...

Ammonium nitrate on its own is not itself classified as dangerous. PARIS and LONDON -- An explosion at a warehouse stocked with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the Beirut port changed the face of a ...

QUESTION: Can the ammonium nitrate in that train wreck explode like a bomb? ANSWER: You must be referring to the train-truck collision near Nelson in Buffalo County that occurred on May 17. According ...

An unspecified amount of ammonium nitrate fuel oil – combined with a detonator, possibly manually triggered – was used in the bomb that exploded near Delhi's Red Fort last night, sources told NDTV ...