Ammonium nitrate had figured in high-profile explosions before. It was used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and was the cause of an accidental explosion in 2013 in West, Texas that killed 15 people.

Aluminum nitride is different from aluminum nitrate, however, as it is a compound of nitrogen which specifically has an oxidation state of -3, whereas nitrate refers to any ester or salt of nitric ...

IntroductionSodium hydroxide is added to a cylinder of aluminum nitrate, precipitating out aluminum hydroxide. When additional base is added, the precipitate dissolves. The reactions can then be ...

ALUMINIUM hydroxide is readily adsorbed by kieselguhr to form an adsorption complex which is remarkably stable. The hydroxide is deposited by the slow addition of a small excess of ammonia to a de ...

AMBALA: Panic spread among the residents of several localities, including the officers' colonies in Ambala city, when highly explosive liquid aluminium nitrate started leaking from a tanker which ...

Aluminium hydroxide has a wide range of uses, such as flame retardants in plastics and rubber, paper fillers and extenders, toothpaste filler, antacids, titania coating and as a feedstock for the ...

Ammonium nitrate readily combines with a variety of other substances, including diesel, aluminum and even molasses, to make so-called fertilizer bombs.