Wardha: A report prepared by the Groundwater Survey Department reveals that drinking water sources in 42 villages across Wardha district have very high levels of nitrate, rendering the water ...

As fire crews and air tankers work to block the wildfires' explosive growth, images of red clouds of fire retardant falling onto trees are common. What is it — and what's in it?

With a simple, inexpensive field test kit, you can detect inorganic forms of nitrogen readily available to plants such as nitrate (NO3-), nitrite (NO2-), and ammonium ... are uncommon in water because ...

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"It's basically a mixture of water ... end of it really is ammonium phosphate fertilizer." For anyone who's heard of fertilizer being used in explosives: That's ammonium nitrate.

It is a mix of water, fertilizer, and then the red colour is just rust. The fertilizer used in explosives is called ammonium nitrate. Phos-Chek commonly contains two types of ... Phos-Chek’s maker ...

Department of Applied Chemistry for Environment, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji, Tokyo192-0397, Japan ...