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.
Ammonium nitrate is commonly used as an agricultural fertiliser, but is also potentially explosive. Its presence in the waters off the busy city of Abidjan - home to more than six million people ...
Aftermath of the 2020 ammonium nitrate explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. Description: Invented by Alfred Nobel in 1866, the explosive component of dynamite is a stabilized form of TNT. TNT Equivalent ...
In what could prove to be an alarming trend, terrorists who struck here used plasticisers for the first time in India to bind the explosive ammonium nitrate, says the chief of the National Security ...
NSW Police are investigating how explosives used to blast underground tunnels and quarries were found in a caravan parked in a quiet residential Sydney suburb.