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  2. List of ammonium nitrate incidents and disasters - Wikipedia

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    The cause of the explosion was the ignition of ammonium nitrate used as raw material for fertilizer and explosives. Australia Taroom, Queensland August 30, 1972: 3 12 In the 1972 Taroom explosion, a truck carrying 12 tons of ammonium nitrate experienced an electrical fault and caught fire north of Taroom, Queensland. After the driver stopped ...

  3. West Fertilizer Company explosion - Wikipedia

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    After weeks of investigation, the cause of the initial fire remained unknown; authorities ruled out weather, natural causes, anhydrous ammonia, and ammonium nitrate in a rail car as possible causes. [26] In May 2016, the ATF announced that they had determined the fire had been deliberately set. [1]

  4. 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster - Wikipedia

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    The 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster was an explosion and fire that claimed many lives and destroyed several square miles of New Jersey factories. [1] It began on March 1, 1924, about 11:15 a.m., when an explosion destroyed a building in Nixon, New Jersey (an area within present-day Edison, New Jersey) used for processing ammonium nitrate. [2]

  5. Fireworks, ammonium nitrate likely fueled Beirut explosion - AOL

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    Fireworks and ammonium nitrate appear to have been the fuel that ignited a massive explosion that rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut, experts and videos of the blast suggest.

  6. Texas City disaster - Wikipedia

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    Grandcamp had a mixed cargo, containing chiefly ammonium nitrate, but also twine, peanuts, tobacco, some small arms ammunition, engineering equipment, and cotton. [2]: 1 The ammonium nitrate, needed either as fertilizer or an explosive, was manufactured in Nebraska and Iowa and shipped to Texas City by rail before being loaded onto Grandcamp. [4]

  7. 2015 Tianjin explosions - Wikipedia

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    A fire department spokesman confirmed that firefighters had used water in combating the initial fire, which may have led to water being sprayed on calcium carbide, releasing the highly flammable gas acetylene. This would have provided the fuel source for reaction with the oxidizer, ammonium nitrate, thus triggering its detonation more readily. [46]

  8. Port Neal fertilizer plant explosion - Wikipedia

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    The Port Neal fertilizer plant explosion occurred on December 13, 1994 in the ammonium nitrate plant at the Terra International, Inc., Port Neal Complex, 16 mi (26 km) south of Sioux City, Iowa, United States. [1] Four workers at the plant were killed by the explosion, and eighteen others were injured. [3]

  9. Thousands urged to evacuate as fire burning at North Carolina ...

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    An uncontrolled blaze ripping through a fertilizer plant in North Carolina early Tuesday triggered evacuations orders for thousands of people because fire officials fear chemicals at the site ...