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 ...

Three hundred and fifty kilograms of ammonium nitrate – an odourless, white crystalline chemical that is a powerful oxidiser and, under the right conditions, can cause a massive explosion – were ...

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 ...

WEST, Texas (Reuters) - A rail car filled with extremely hazardous ammonium nitrate did not cause the fiery explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant, investigators said on Tuesday, in their first ...