TEXAS CITY, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/CNN) - The explosion in Beirut that created a huge mushroom cloud and registered as a magnitude 3.3 earthquake is being compared to two agricultural ... Ammonium Nitrate.

TEXAS CITY, Texas – Tuesday’s explosion in Beirut, Lebanon released incredible amounts of energy and resulted in unthinkable damage. A large amount of ammonium nitrate, a chemical compound ...

Investigators said ammonium nitrate caused the explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, on April 17. Fourteen people died and more than 200 more were injured in the blast. Lm Otero / AP ...

In this case, according to Lebanese officials, about 2,750 metric tons of ammonium nitrate had been stockpiled at a Beirut port warehouse, just a few minutes’ walk from the city’s shopping and ...

In mid-April 1947, a French freighter, the Grand Camp, docked at Texas City to take on a heavy load of ammonium nitrate fertilizer. But as longshoremen loaded the ship on April 16, the smell of ...

The men behind the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing used around 5,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate to detonate that explosion, killing 168 people and injuring more than 680 others.

The city council in West this week approved of accepting $10.44 million to settle its claims against the defendants, including makers and suppliers of ammonium nitrate, the explosive fertilizer ...

In 2013, ammonium nitrate was the cause of an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, killing 15 people, injuring 200 and wiping out hundreds of homes. Federal officials later found the ...