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Ammonium nitrate

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Ammonium nitrate is a chemical compound, the nitrate salt of the ammonium cation. [1]

104 relations: Acid–base reaction, Agriculture, Airbag, Amatol, Ammonia, Ammonium, Ammonium chloride, Ammonium nitrite, Ammonium perchlorate, Ammonium sulfate, ANFO, Anhydrous, Atacama Desert, Barium nitrate, Barium sulfate, Brest, France, Caesium chloride, Calcium ammonium nitrate, Calcium carbonate, Calcium nitrate, Carbon dioxide, Chalcogenide, Chemical compound, Chitral, Chlorate, Coal mining, Combustion, Critical relative humidity, Cubic crystal system, Deflagration to detonation transition, Detonation, Endothermic process, Explosive material, Fertilizer, Fuel oil, Gas, Guanidine nitrate, Haber process, Halide minerals, Health and Safety Executive, Hexagonal crystal family, Hydrogen, Hydroxylammonium nitrate, Ice pack, Improvised explosive device, Iodate, Ion, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Labeling of fertilizer, List of UN numbers 0201 to 0300, ..., List of UN numbers 1901 to 2000, List of UN numbers 2001 to 2100, List of UN numbers 2401 to 2500, Lower Dir District, Malakand District, Malakand Division, Median lethal dose, Metre per second, Mineral acid, Mining, Nadadores, Niter, Nitrate, Nitric acid, Nitrogen, Nitrophosphate process, Nitrous oxide, Oakdale, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma City bombing, Oppau explosion, Ostwald process, Oxidizing agent, Oxygen, Pakistan, Particulates, Potassium chlorate, Potassium nitrate, Quarry, Redox, Safety data sheet, Salt metathesis reaction, Sayreville, New Jersey, Silver chloride, Silver nitrate, Sodium chloride, Sodium nitrate, Spray tower, Sterling Hall bombing, Swat District, Takata Corporation, Tannerite (rifle targets), Tessenderlo, Texas City disaster, The Dallas Morning News, The New York Times, TNT, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Upper Dir District, Urea, Water vapor, 2011 Delhi bombing, 2011 Norway attacks, 2013 Hyderabad blasts, 5-Aminotetrazole. Expand index (54 more) »

Acid–base reaction

An acid–base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base, which can be used to determine pH.

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Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Airbag

An airbag is a type of vehicle safety device and is an occupant restraint system.

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Amatol

Amatol is a highly explosive material made from a mixture of TNT and ammonium nitrate.

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Ammonia

Ammonia is a compound of nitrogen and hydrogen with the formula NH3.

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Ammonium

The ammonium cation is a positively charged polyatomic ion with the chemical formula.

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Ammonium chloride

Ammonium chloride is an inorganic compound with the formula NH4Cl and a white crystalline salt that is highly soluble in water.

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Ammonium nitrite

Ammonium nitrite, NH4NO2, is the ammonia salt of nitrous acid.

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Ammonium perchlorate

Ammonium perchlorate ("AP") is an inorganic compound with the formula NH4ClO4. It is a colorless or white solid that is soluble in water. Perchlorate is a powerful oxidizer and ammonium is a good fuel. This combination explains the usefulness of this material as a rocket propellant. Its instability has involved it in a number of accidents, such as the PEPCON disaster.

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Ammonium sulfate

Ammonium sulfate (American English and international scientific usage; ammonium sulphate in British English); (NH4)2SO4, is an inorganic salt with a number of commercial uses.

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ANFO

ANFO (or AN/FO, for ammonium nitrate/fuel oil) is a widely used bulk industrial explosive.

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Anhydrous

A substance is anhydrous if it contains no water.

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Atacama Desert

The Atacama Desert (Desierto de Atacama) is a plateau in South America (primarily in Chile), covering a 1000-km (600-mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast, west of the Andes mountains.

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Barium nitrate

Barium nitrate is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula Ba(NO3)2.

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Barium sulfate

Barium sulfate (or sulphate) is the inorganic compound with the chemical formula BaSO4.

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Brest, France

Brest is a city in the Finistère département in Brittany.

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Caesium chloride

Caesium chloride or cesium chloride is the inorganic compound with the formula CsCl.

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Calcium ammonium nitrate

Calcium ammonium nitrate or CAN, also known as nitro-limestone, is a widely used inorganic fertilizer, accounting for 4% of all nitrogen fertilizer used worldwide in 2007.

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Calcium carbonate

Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the formula CaCO3.

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Calcium nitrate

Calcium nitrate, also called Norgessalpeter (Norwegian saltpeter), is an inorganic compound with the formula Ca(NO3)2.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide (chemical formula) is a colorless gas with a density about 60% higher than that of dry air.

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Chalcogenide

A chalcogenide is a chemical compound consisting of at least one chalcogen anion and at least one more electropositive element.

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Chemical compound

A chemical compound is a chemical substance composed of many identical molecules (or molecular entities) composed of atoms from more than one element held together by chemical bonds.

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Chitral

Chitral (Pashto/چترال; چھترار, Khowar for "field") is the capital of the Chitral District, situated on the Chitral River in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

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Chlorate

The chlorate anion has the formula.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground.

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Combustion

Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke.

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Critical relative humidity

The critical relative humidity (CRH) of a salt is defined as the relative humidity of the surrounding atmosphere (at a certain temperature) at which the material begins to absorb moisture from the atmosphere and below which it will not absorb atmospheric moisture.

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Cubic crystal system

In crystallography, the cubic (or isometric) crystal system is a crystal system where the unit cell is in the shape of a cube.

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Deflagration to detonation transition

Deflagration to detonation transition (DDT) refers to a phenomenon in ignitable mixtures of a flammable gas and air (or oxygen) when a sudden transition takes place from a deflagration type of combustion to a detonation type of explosion.

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Detonation

Detonation is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it.

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Endothermic process

The term endothermic process describes the process or reaction in which the system absorbs energy from its surroundings, usually in the form of heat.

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Explosive material

An explosive material, also called an explosive, is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

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Fertilizer

A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English; see spelling differences) is any material of natural or synthetic origin (other than liming materials) that is applied to soils or to plant tissues to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to the growth of plants.

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Fuel oil

Fuel oil (also known as heavy oil, marine fuel or furnace oil) is a fraction obtained from petroleum distillation, either as a distillate or a residue.

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Gas

Gas is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being solid, liquid, and plasma).

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Guanidine nitrate

Guanidine nitrate is the chemical compound with the formula NO3.

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Haber process

The Haber process, also called the Haber–Bosch process, is an artificial nitrogen fixation process and is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia today.

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Halide minerals

The halide mineral class include those minerals with a dominant halide anion (F−, Cl−, Br− and I−).

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Health and Safety Executive

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the body responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare, and for research into occupational risks in Great Britain.

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Hexagonal crystal family

In crystallography, the hexagonal crystal family is one of the 6 crystal families, which includes 2 crystal systems (hexagonal and trigonal) and 2 lattice systems (hexagonal and rhombohedral).

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a chemical element with symbol H and atomic number 1.

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Hydroxylammonium nitrate

Hydroxylammonium nitrate or hydroxylamine nitrate (HAN) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula NH3OHNO3.

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Ice pack

An ice pack or gel pack is a portable plastic sac filled with water, or refrigerant gel or liquid.

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Improvised explosive device

An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action.

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Iodate

An iodate is a conjugate base of iodic acid.

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Ion

An ion is an atom or molecule that has a non-zero net electrical charge (its total number of electrons is not equal to its total number of protons).

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (abbreviated as KP; خیبر پختونخوا; خیبر پښتونخوا) is one of the four administrative provinces of Pakistan, located in the northwestern region of the country along the international border with Afghanistan.

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Labeling of fertilizer

The labeling of fertilizers varies by country in terms of analysis methodology, nutrient labeling, and minimum nutrient requirements.

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List of UN numbers 0201 to 0300

The UN numbers from UN0201 to UN0300 as assigned by the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods.

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List of UN numbers 1901 to 2000

The UN numbers from UN1901 to UN2000 as assigned by the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods.

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List of UN numbers 2001 to 2100

The UN numbers from UN2001 to UN2100 as assigned by the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods.

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List of UN numbers 2401 to 2500

The UN numbers from UN2401 to UN2500 as assigned by the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods.

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Lower Dir District

Lower Dir (لر دیر ,دیر زیریں) is one of the 26 districts in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

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Malakand District

Malakand (ملاکنډ) is a division of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.

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Malakand Division

Malakand Division was an administrative division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (North West Frontier Province) of Pakistan, until the reforms of 2000 abolished the third tier of government.

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Median lethal dose

In toxicology, the median lethal dose, LD50 (abbreviation for "lethal dose, 50%"), LC50 (lethal concentration, 50%) or LCt50 is a measure of the lethal dose of a toxin, radiation, or pathogen.

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Metre per second

Metre per second (American English: meter per second) is an SI derived unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector quantity which specifies both magnitude and a specific direction), defined by distance in metres divided by time in seconds.

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Mineral acid

A mineral acid (or inorganic acid) is an acid derived from one or more inorganic compounds.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Nadadores

Nadadores is a city in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila.

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Niter

Niter, or nitre (chiefly British), is the mineral form of potassium nitrate, KNO3, also known as saltpeter or saltpetre.

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Nitrate

Nitrate is a polyatomic ion with the molecular formula and a molecular mass of 62.0049 u.

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Nitric acid

Nitric acid (HNO3), also known as aqua fortis (Latin for "strong water") and spirit of niter, is a highly corrosive mineral acid.

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element with symbol N and atomic number 7.

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Nitrophosphate process

The nitrophosphate process (also known as the Odda process) was a method for the industrial production of nitrogen fertilizers invented by Erling Johnson in the municipality of Odda, Norway around 1927.

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Nitrous oxide

Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas or nitrous, is a chemical compound, an oxide of nitrogen with the formula.

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Oakdale, Pennsylvania

Oakdale is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States and is a Pittsburgh suburb.

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Oklahoma City bombing

The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States on April 19, 1995.

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Oppau explosion

The Oppau explosion occurred on September 21, 1921, when a tower silo storing 4,500 tonnes of a mixture of ammonium sulfate and ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded at a BASF plant in Oppau, now part of Ludwigshafen, Germany, killing 500–600 people and injuring about 2,000 more.

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Ostwald process

The Ostwald process is a chemical process for making nitric acid (HNO3).

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Oxidizing agent

In chemistry, an oxidizing agent (oxidant, oxidizer) is a substance that has the ability to oxidize other substances — in other words to cause them to lose electrons.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

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Particulates

Atmospheric aerosol particles, also known as atmospheric particulate matter, particulate matter (PM), particulates, or suspended particulate matter (SPM) are microscopic solid or liquid matter suspended in Earth's atmosphere.

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Potassium chlorate

Potassium chlorate is a compound containing potassium, chlorine and oxygen atoms, with the molecular formula KClO3.

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Potassium nitrate

Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula KNO3.

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Quarry

A quarry is a place from which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate has been excavated from the ground.

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Redox

Redox (short for reduction–oxidation reaction) (pronunciation: or) is a chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of atoms are changed.

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Safety data sheet

A safety data sheet (SDS), material safety data sheet (MSDS), or product safety data sheet (PSDS) is an important component of product stewardship, occupational safety and health, and spill-handling procedures.

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Salt metathesis reaction

A salt metathesis reaction (from the Greek μετάθεσις, "transposition"), sometimes called a double replacement reaction or double displacement reaction, is a chemical process involving the exchange of bonds between two reacting chemical species, which results in the creation of products with similar or identical bonding affiliations.

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Sayreville, New Jersey

Sayreville is a borough located on the Raritan River, near Raritan Bay in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States.

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Silver chloride

Silver chloride is a chemical compound with the chemical formula AgCl.

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Silver nitrate

Silver nitrate is an inorganic compound with chemical formula.

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Sodium chloride

Sodium chloride, also known as salt, is an ionic compound with the chemical formula NaCl, representing a 1:1 ratio of sodium and chloride ions.

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Sodium nitrate

Sodium nitrate is the chemical compound with the formula NaNO3.

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Spray tower

A spray tower (or spray column or spray chamber) is gas-liquid contactor used to achieve mass and heat transfer between a continuous gas phase (that can contain dispersed solid particles) and a dispersed liquid phase.

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Sterling Hall bombing

The Sterling Hall Bombing that occurred on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus on August 24, 1970, was committed by four youths as a protest against the university's research connections with the U.S. military during the Vietnam War.

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Swat District

Swāt (Pashto, Urdu: سوات) is a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

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Takata Corporation

was an automotive parts company based in Japan.

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Tannerite (rifle targets)

Tannerite is a brand of binary explosive targets used for firearms practice and sold in kit form.

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Tessenderlo

Tessenderlo is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg.

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Texas City disaster

The Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred April 16, 1947 in the Port of Texas City, Texas.

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The Dallas Morning News

The Dallas Morning News is a daily newspaper serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area of Texas, with an average of 271,900 daily subscribers.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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TNT

Trinitrotoluene (TNT), or more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H2(NO2)3CH3.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.

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Upper Dir District

Upper Dir (دیر بالا) is one of the 26 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

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Urea

Urea, also known as carbamide, is an organic compound with chemical formula CO(NH2)2.

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Water vapor

No description.

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2011 Delhi bombing

The 2011 Delhi bombing took place in the Indian capital Delhi on Wednesday, 7 September 2011 at 10:14 local time outside Gate No.

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2011 Norway attacks

The 2011 Norway attacks, referred to in Norway as 22 July (Norwegian: 22. juli), the date of the events, were two sequential lone wolf terrorist attacks by Anders Behring Breivik against the government, the civilian population, and a Workers' Youth League (AUF)-run summer camp.

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2013 Hyderabad blasts

On 21 February 2013, at around 19:00 IST, two blasts occurred in the city of Hyderabad, India.

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5-Aminotetrazole

5-Aminotetrazole is an organic compound with the formula HN4CNH2.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_nitrate

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