ammonium nitrate

ammonium nitrate

English

Ammonium nitrate

Noun

ammonium nitrate (uncountable)

1. (inorganic chemistry) The ammonium salt of nitric acid, NH₄NO₃; it is used in fertilizers and explosives (notoriously in improvised explosive devices, though its main importance is as an explosive in its own right and in mixtures such as amatol and ANFO).
   • 2020 August 5, John Ismay, “What Is Ammonium Nitrate, Blamed in the Beirut Explosion?”, in The New York Times‎, ISSN 0362-4331:

     According to the Lebanese government, about 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer was stored in a warehouse on the Beirut waterfront and caught fire, later exploding.

Derived terms

• ammonite
• ANFO

 

Related terms

• amatol
• ammonite
• ammonitrate

 

Translations

ammonium salt of nitric acid

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 硝酸銨／硝酸铵 (zh) (xiāosuān'ǎn) Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: ammoniumnitraat (nl) n Finnish: ammoniumnitraatti French: nitrate d'ammonium (fr) m German: Ammoniumnitrat (de) n Hungarian: ammónium-nitrát (hu) Icelandic: ammóníumnítrat Irish: níotráit amóiniam f Italian: nitrato di ammonio (it) Japanese: 硝安 (しょうあん, shōan) Maori: haukini pākawaota Romanian: nitrat de amoniu m, azotat de amoniu m Spanish: nitrato de amonio m, nitrato amónico m Turkish: amonyum nitrat (tr)

Further reading

• ammonium nitrate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia