But according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), "contamination of ammonium nitrate is generally expected to increase the likelihood of an explosion if that ammonium nitrate is subject to a ...

Chemical engineer and community campaigner Keith Craig says an explosion could have dire consequences. "Over the years, over 40 or so major explosions of ammonium nitrate. This is just the latest one.

Although normally used as an agricultural fertiliser, ammonium nitrate can also be used to make explosives. It was an explosion of ammonium nitrate in Beirut in 2020 that killed more than 220 ...

The ammonium nitrate had reportedly been unloaded from a ship impounded at the port in 2013, and then stored in a warehouse there. The explosion comes at a sensitive time for Lebanon, with an ...

The lawn and garden fertilizer plant is home to more than 300 tons of ammonium nitrate, and officials feared a potential explosion. According to local media, the fire started Monday night.

While the cause of the explosion was not immediately known, local media citing the country’s authorities said that ammonium nitrate stored in the port may have triggered the blast. The explosion ...

A vessel loaded with 20,000 tons of ammonium nitrate – the same chemical that left large parts of Beirut in ruins in an explosion in 2020 – is nearing the port of Abidjan. Campaigners have expressed ...