The Lebanese capital Beirut was rocked on Tuesday evening local time by an explosion that has killed at least 78 people and injured thousands more. The country’s prime minister Hassan Diab said the ...

Ammonium nitrate is a crystal-like white solid which is made in large industrial quantities. Its biggest use is as a source of nitrogen for fertiliser, but it is also used to create explosives for ...

A HUGE explosion erupted in Beirut on August 4 causing 100 deaths and nearly 4,000 injuries. It has been reported that the cause of the explosion in the Lebanon capital was ammonium nitrate. But what ...

Ammonium nitrate, a common agricultural fertilizer, is best known as an ingredient in the explosive that was used in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and the Oklahoma City Federal Building ...