The colossal explosion in Lebanon’s capital this week was apparently caused when more than 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly volatile chemical, detonated. The stockpile had been left for years ...

New Delhi: The national capital reeled under a deadly blast near the Red Fort 10 November, when a car explosion close to the Mughal-era monument killed at least 12 people and injured dozens. As ...

WACO -- Nearly two years after a fire set off a deadly ammonium nitrate explosion at the West Fertilizer Co., Texas businesses selling the chemical aren't subject to any new laws, and only a handful ...

NEW DELHI: Investigators probing Monday's Delhi blast suspect that triacetone triperoxide aka TATP could be one of the key components of the IED that was in the car that exploded on Monday evening ...

A person with a dark baseball cap stands near several bombed-out vehicles cordoned off by red, yellow, and blue police tape. An investigator examines the blast site left after a car carrying 30–40 ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Seismological data suggests that six blasts preceded the Beirut port explosion, the last of them a combustion of fireworks that apparently set off a warehouse full of ammonium ...

AUSTIN - Nearly three years after an explosion at a fertilizer plant near Waco killed 15 people and injured scores of others, Texans still live with the threat posed by stores of ammonium nitrate, ...

QUESTION: Can the ammonium nitrate in that train wreck explode like a bomb? ANSWER: You must be referring to the train-truck collision near Nelson in Buffalo County that occurred on May 17. According ...