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 ...

If, as seems to be the case, the Beirut explosion was caused by thousands of tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse, the blast demonstrates the deadly potential of this common agricultural ...

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 ...

A gigantic amount of ammonium nitrate recently exploded in Beirut, killing hundreds, injuring thousands while causing catastrophic damage. Chemically, it's not at all surprising that ammonium nitrate ...

Ammonium nitrate, the material that appears to have caused the massive explosion that devastated Beirut on Tuesday, has been behind some of the largest accidental explosions and terrorist bombings on ...

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The Lebanese capital Beirut was rocked on Tuesday evening local time by an explosion that has killed more than 100 people and injured thousands more. The country's prime minister, Hassan Diab, said ...

Gabriel da Silva, senior lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, on what triggered the explosion in the Lebanese capital. The Lebanese capital Beirut was rocked on Tuesday ...