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.

The explosion's shockwave blew out ... dangerous because if a fire reaches it, the chemical reaction will be much more intense. Ammonium nitrate has been associated with deadly industrial accidents.

Even before the explosion in Beirut, people in Newcastle, New South Wales, were asking for a large stockpile of ammonium nitrate in a warehouse 3km from the city centre to be moved or reduced.

A cargo ship packed with potentially explosive ammonium nitrate remains adrift in the English Channel off the coast of France. The Maltese-registered Ruby is carrying 20,000 tonnes of the chemical ...

Ammonium nitrate is a fertiliser which caused a huge explosion in Beruit in 2020, killing 218 people, after it was stored incorrectly. Ruby, the damaged cargo ship, has now left Margate.

When improperly stored or exposed to stressors like heat and pressure, ammonium nitrate can become highly unstable and explosive. Notably, ammonium nitrate was the same substance responsible for ...

Aboard the ship are 22,046 tons of explosive ammonium nitrate, which is seven times ... "The goal is probably more to test ...

United in grief and anger, families of the victims and several thousand Lebanese marked one year since the horrific explosion at ... nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a port warehouse.

A damaged ship containing thousands of tonnes of potentially explosive fertiliser has docked at a port in Norfolk. The MV Ruby had originally loaded its ammonium nitrate cargo from Russia's ...