ammonium nitrate
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[edit]Noun
[edit]ammonium nitrate (uncountable)
- (inorganic chemistry) The ammonium salt of nitric acid, NH4NO3; it is used in fertilizers and explosives (notoriously in improvised explosive devices, though its main importance is as an explosive in its own right and in mixtures such as amatol and ANFO).
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[edit]ammonium salt of nitric acid
Further reading
[edit]- ammonium nitrate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia