A Lebanese army helicopter flies over the scene where an explosion hit the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. Prime Minister Hassan Diab, in a short televised speech, has appealed to ...

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Ammonium nitrate, the material that appears to have caused the massive explosion that devastated Beirut on Tuesday, has been behind some of the largest accidental explosions and terrorist bombings on ...

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The blaze started Monday night at the Weaver Fertilizer Plant in Winston-Salem. A fire at a North Carolina fertilizer plant packed with nearly 600 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate continued ...

Liquid urea-ammonium nitrate was being carried in a barge that suffered a tank collapse in Cincinnati early Tuesday morning, spilling into the Ohio River. Kentucky Energy and Environment and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The catastrophic explosion in Beirut last week has renewed calls in the U.S. to strengthen oversight of ammonium nitrate or AN, a chemical compound used in some farm fertilizers. Officials in Beirut ...

A week after federal authorities rejected the city of West’s request for funds to rebuild schools and infrastructure damaged in the April 17 explosion, the city filed a lawsuit against West Fertilizer ...

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

In ordinary circumstances, ammonium nitrate is fertilizer. But when placed under stress of heat and pressure, it acts like a bomb. By John Ismay John Ismay was a bomb disposal officer in the U.S. Navy ...