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Definition: Ammonium Nitrate |
Ammonium NitrateNoun1. Used as an explosive and fertilizer and rocket propellant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Mining | Used in explosives and as a fertilizer. NH4 NO3 ; mol wt,80.04; colorless. (references) |
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General
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| Name | Ammonium nitrate |
| Chemical formula | NH4NO3 |
| Appearance | White solid |
Physical Attributes
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| Formula weight | 80.0 amu |
| Melting point | 442 K (169 °C) |
| Boiling point | decomposes at 483 K (210 °C) |
| Density | 1.7 ×103 kg/m3 |
| Crystal structure | ? |
| Solubility | 208 g in 100g water |
Thermochemistry
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| ΔfH0liquid | -359.6 kJ/mol |
| ΔfH0solid | -366 kJ/mol |
| S0liquid, 1 bar | ? J/mol·K |
| S0solid | 151 J/mol·K |
Safety
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| Ingestion | Dangerous in large quantities. |
| Inhalation | Very dangerous - can be fatal. |
| Skin | May cause irritation. |
| Eyes | May cause irritation. |
| More info | Hazardous Chemical Database |
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SI units were used where possible. Unless otherwise stated, standard conditions were used.
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The chemical compound ammonium nitrate, the nitrate of ammonium with chemical formula NH4NO3, is commonly used in agriculture as a high-nitrogen fertilizer. As a strong oxidizing agent, it has applications as a component of explosives. In the latter use, it is usually mixed with oil. Because of the ready availability in bulk of the raw materials, Ammonium nitrate/fuel oil (ANFO) mixtures have occasionally been used for terrorist bombs, such as in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Ammonium nitrate decomposes into gases including oxygen when heated (non-explosive reaction); however, ammonium nitrate can be induced to decompose explosively by detonation. Large stockpiles of the material can be a major fire risk due to their supporting oxidation, and may also detonate, as happened in the Texas City disaster of 1947, which led to major changes in the regulations for storage and handling. Another heavy explosion, with hundreds of casualties, occurred in the city of Oppau (on the grounds of BASF near Ludwigshafen in Germany) on September 21, 1921.
Ammonium Nitrate is also used in instant cold packs, as it dissolves in water endothermically, absorbing 26.2 kilojoules per mole of heat to do so.
Ammonium nitrate is also used in the treatment of titanium ores.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ammonium nitrate."
Crosswords: Ammonium Nitrate |
| English words defined with "ammonium nitrate": Nitrum flammans. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ammonium nitrate": ACID SUPERVISOR, ammonal, AMMONIUM-NITRATE CRYSTALLIZER, AN-TNT slurry ♦ bellite, binary explosive ♦ ceric ammonium nitrate, cored ammonium nitrate dynamite ♦ donarite, Dynamon ♦ explosives casting, extralite ♦ gas ratio, gelatin extras ♦ Hydrox ♦ low-density explosive ♦ MAGAZINE KEEPER, mixed explosive, molasses/AN explosive ♦ nitroglycerin powder, nitrolite, nitrostarch explosive ♦ powder nipper, priller ♦ quarry powder ♦ semigelatin, shot firer, shot lighter, slurry blasting agents ♦ trinitrotoluene-ammonium nitrate explosive ♦ westfalite. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Tennessee Valley Authority production. Chemical plants. Electrical transformers in one of the TVA plants in the Muscle Shoals area, producing war materials by gas synthesis. These plants make ammonia for conversion into ammonium nitrate for use in the man.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Political Economy | PERU | Import licenses have been abolished for all products except firearms, munitions and explosives; chemical precursors (used in illegal narcotics production); ammonium nitrate fertilizer (which has been used as a blast enhancer for terrorist car bombs); wild plant and animal species; and some radio and communication equipment. (references) |
Trade | Peru | The only remaining products requiring licenses are firearms, munitions and explosives imported by private persons, chemical precursors (applicable to cocaine production) and ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which has been used as a blast enhancer for terrorist car bombs. (references) |
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Expression using "ammonium nitrate": ceric ammonium nitrate. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ammonium nitrate | 94 |
ammonium nitrate fertilizer | 10 |
ammonium nitrate use | 3 |
ammonium nitrate price | 2 |
ammonium nitrate polyacrylamide | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "ammonium nitrate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ammoniumnitrat (nitrate of ammonia), salpetersur ammoniak (nitrate of ammonia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ammonsalpeter (nitrate of ammonia), ammoniumnitraat (nitrate of ammonia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | seriumammoniumnitraatti (ceric ammonium nitrate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ammonitrate (nitrate of ammonia), nitrate d'ammonium, nitrate d'ammoniaque (nitrate of ammonia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Ammonsalpeter, Ammoniumnitrat, Ammoniaksalpeterdünger (nitrate of ammonia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νιτρικό αμμώνιο (nitrate of ammonia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ammonsalétrom, ammónium-nitrát (ammonal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nitrato di ammonio (nitrate of ammonia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 硝安 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうあ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ammoniumay itratenay nitrato de amoníaco (nitrate of ammonia), nitrato de amónio. (various references) нитрат аммония, аммиачная селитра. (various references) amonitrato (nitrate of ammonia), nitrato de amonio, nitrato amónico (nitrate of ammonia). (various references) cerium-ammoniumnitrat (ceric ammonium nitrate). (various references) amonyum nitrat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Ammonium Nitrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ammoniuim nitrate, amonium nitrate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-i-i-m-m-m-n-n-o-r-t-t-u" | |
-4 letters: reanimation, termination. | |
-5 letters: ammunition, antinature, maintainer, marination, maturation, natatorium, numeration, rumination, tournament, tramontane. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 6D 6F 6E 69 75 6D 4E 69 74 72 61 74 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01101101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01110101 01101101 00100000 01001110 01101001 01110100 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m m o n i u m   N i t r a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 006D 006F 006E 0069 0075 006D 004E 0069 0074 0072 0061 0074 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3579798180758779248758684678671 |
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