What does AN stand for?

Ammonium Nitrate

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The plant, to be located south of the capital of Lima, would produce 910,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate a year and require estimated investments of between $1 billion and $2 billion.

Peru : CF Industries signs deal for Peru gas supply

Khalid was among 14 adults and four minors charged after allegedly trying to purchase three tons of the bomb-making ingredient ammonium nitrate from undercover police officers.

Canadian sentenced to 14 years for foiled bomb plot

Byline: ANI Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), Aug 18 (ANI): Jharkhand police arrested three persons and seized a consignment of 450 bags of ammonium nitrate and 10 detonators here.

Jharkhand police seized 450 bags of explosives

A "MACK" truck trailer with a seventeen-tones load of ammonium nitrate (a common ingredient in agricultural fertilizer) overturned whilst ascending the Barskoon Pass, some 48 km from the Kumtor mine on November 7 at 5:27 p.

Kumtor Operating Company reports a truck accident on November 7 which ...

Ammonium nitrate is an explosive commonly used as fertilizer and was employed in the deadly 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

Student accused in bomb plot should undergo mental health evaluation, ...

The new guidance, drawn up by the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC), Defra the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), outlines in one comprehensive document the procedures to be followed if any consignment of ammonium nitrate fails to pass the Detonation Resistance Test (DRT).

farming: New advice over fertiliser safety

1680) that would regulate the sale and purchase of ammonium nitrate has been approved by the House Homeland Security Committee's Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology.

Explosives

In the Sixties, in an act of breathtaking innocence, it published a short pamphlet called Pothole Blasting For Wildlife, which printed a recipe for making a good, strong, homemade explosive from ordinary ammonium nitrate fertiliser.

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