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| cause = Sodium dichloroisocyanurate and ammonium nitrate mishandling and reaction Three hundred tonnes of [[ammonium nitrate]] was stored (the maximum capacity was 2,000 tonnes) in hangar 221 222.<ref ...

...4,500 [[tonne|tonnes]] of a mixture of [[ammonium sulfate]] and [[ammonium nitrate]] [[fertilizer]] stored in a tower silo exploded at a [[BASF]] plant in [[L ...u-explosion-disaster-the-unforeseen-explosivity-of-porous-ammonium-sulfate-nitrate-fertilizer|access-date=2020-08-14|website=English|language=en}}</ref> ...

...]'' attributed the disaster to "the explosion of a train carrying ammonium nitrate".<ref>Sunday Telegraph, p. April 1, 25 2004</ref> ...caused by carelessness during the shunting of wagons loaded with ammonium-nitrate fertilizer".<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia ...

| ImageFile = Ammonium-nitrate-2D.svg | ImageName = Structural formula of ammonium cation (left) and nitrate anion (right) ...

[[File:Ammonium nitrate-fuel oil (ANFO) explosive.jpg|thumb|Ammonium nitrate prills used in ANFO at a [[potash|potash mine]].]] ...trial [[high explosive]]. It consists of 94% porous [[prill]]ed [[ammonium nitrate]] (NH₄NO₃) (AN), which acts as the oxidizing agent an ...

| type = [[List of ammonium nitrate incidents and disasters|Ammonium nitrate explosion]] ...argo of about 2,300 tons (about 2,100 [[tonne|metric tons]]) of [[ammonium nitrate]].<ref name="fire report">{{cite web |last=Fire Prevention and Engineering ...

| weapons = [[Car bomb]] ([[ammonium nitrate]]) ...was filled with close to {{convert|2000|lb}} of [[ANFO]] (i.e., [[ammonium nitrate]] and [[fuel oil]]).<ref name="WHS" /> Pieces of the van were found on top ...

...ply, so [[Amatol]], a mixture of various proportions of TNT and [[Ammonium nitrate]], was adopted instead.<ref name=haslam/> [[Category:1918 industrial disasters|Chilwell Shell Filling Factory Explosion]] ...

...anguage=en}}</ref> It happened when approximately 2,750 tons of [[ammonium nitrate]] inside a warehouse at the port exploded.<ref name="Beirut explosion 2020" ...nts {{!}} UNEP - UN Environment Programme |url=https://www.unep.org/topics/disasters-and-conflicts/disaster-risk-reduction/preventing-chemical-and-industrial-ac ...

[[Lead(II) nitrate|Lead nitrate]] can improve gold [[tank leaching|leaching]] speed and quantity recovered, ...maining free cyanide degrades in the pond, while cyanate ions hydrolyse to ammonium. Studies show that residual cyanide trapped in the gold-mine tailings cause ...

This article lists notable '''industrial disasters''', which are [[disasters]] caused by [[Industrial sector|industrial]] companies, either by accident, Other disasters can also be considered industrial disasters, if their causes are rooted in the products or processes of industry. For e ...

...t of accidents and disasters by death toll#Structural collapses|industrial disasters]] in the world, kills 1,134 people in [[Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=ht ...Warehouse 12 at the port, where it will remain for six years. The ammonium nitrate will erupt in a [[2020 Beirut explosion|massive explosion]] on [[August 4]] ...

...re accidentally left open, and as in one of the largest peacetime maritime disasters when {{MS|Estonia}} sank off of the [[Archipelago Sea]] in Finland), water ...[Beirut]] as a result of nearby 4 August [[2020 Beirut explosions|ammonium nitrate explosion]]. ...

...ilson B. Keene'', docked across the slip. Both ships also carried ammonium nitrate fertilizer and were ablaze. They, too, exploded. In all, the explosions ki ...ed in March 2007, they described the event as "one of the worst industrial disasters in recent U.S. history."<ref name="CSB_report" /> The BP facility in Texas ...

...><ref>Marlene Bradford, Robert S. Carmichael, Tracy Irons-Georges: Natural Disasters – Icebergs and glaciers-wind gusts; Salem Press, 2001 (p. 737).</ref> ...rchive.org/web/20201218041515/https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/disasters-and-phenomena/destruction-of-uss-maine.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> ...

...065957/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118205637/on-the-tv-scene-real-life-disasters-in/|url-status=live}}</ref><!-- Sun --> ...xie Mirror|publisher=The World Company|date=March 16, 2005|quote="Ammonium nitrate," said KCTV 5 reporter Dave Helling. "It's a cheap and common fertilizer an ...

...plosion levelled Texas City and caused fires which detonated more ammonium nitrate in a nearby ship and warehouse. It was one of the largest non-nuclear explo ...t2=Baron|first2=Scott|title=Soldiers Lost at Sea: A Chronicle of Troopship Disasters|edition=2004|year=2004|publisher=[[United States Naval Institute]] |isbn=97 ...

...n said that "The state has robust capability to respond to emergencies and disasters."<ref name="TCPalm 2016">{{cite web | title=Florida can pay for algae recov ...te]] found in the lake. Manure and precipitation were two other sources of nitrate. These results can aid in monitoring and regulation of nitrogen uses around ...

...as]], the general location where McVeigh and Nichols stored the [[ammonium nitrate]] fertilizer used for the construction of the bomb. The storage unit was lo ...1994, Nichols bought forty {{convert|50|lb|kg|adj=on}} bags of [[ammonium nitrate]] fertilizer from Mid-Kansas Coop in [[McPherson, Kansas]], enough to ferti ...

...[[semiconductor|semiconducting]] solid. It can be made by heating [[uranyl nitrate]] to form {{chem|UO|2}}. ...anium hexafluoride]] by reacting with [[ammonia]] to form a solid called [[ammonium diuranate]], {{chem2|(NH4)2U2O7}}. This is then heated ([[Calcination|calci ...