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Ammonium nitrate may have sparked the Beirut explosion

Name: Ammonium nitrate may have sparked the Beirut explosion
Uploaded: 2020-08-05T12:17:56-07:00
Channel: NBC Palm Springs
Description: Lebanon’s government has blamed a large quantity of poorly stored ammonium nitrate for the huge blast that rocked its capital, Beirut, killing scores of people and devastating swathes of the city. What is this chemical, and why did it explode? Ammonium nitrate is an industrial chemical commonly used around the world as an agricultural fertilizer, and in explosives […]

By: NBC Palm Springs

August 5, 2020

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