Why was the explosion so massive? "The plant uses ammonium nitrate in fertilizer production, the same chemical used in 1995's Oklahoma City Bombing," says Siobhan Morris at Newstalk 1010.

Estimated yield: 1.1 kilotons of TNT Location: Beirut, Lebanon Date: 2020 Details: An accidental explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored ... This Soviet test was the largest ...

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.

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.

But somewhere out there in the squall bobs the Ruby, a Maltese-flagged cargo ship carrying twenty thousand tonnes of potentially explosive ammonium nitrate ... when a major explosion in the ...

Initial investigations into the Beirut port blast indicate years of inaction and negligence over the storage of highly explosive material caused the explosion ... tons of ammonium nitrate, used ...

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 tanker was carrying 42 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, which triggered an explosion ... Queensland Fire and Rescue said scientific testing, including atmospheric assessment, was underway.

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 ...

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 ...

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