ammonium nitrate en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /əmˈmoʊniəmˌnaɪtɹeɪt/ (General-American)
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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).
According to the Lebanese government, about 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer was stored in a warehouse on the Beirut waterfront and caught fire, later exploding.
2020 August 5, John Ismay, “What Is Ammonium Nitrate, Blamed in the Beirut Explosion?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
Deriveds
Relateds
ammonite · amatol · ammonitrate
Translations (47)
mn аммонийн нитрат (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · cs dusičnan amonný (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · bg амониев нитрат (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · az ammonium nitrat (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · sk dusičnan amónny (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · lv amonija nitrāts (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · pl azotan amonu (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · ga níotráit amóiniam (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · de Ammoniumnitrat (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · hy ամոնիումի նիտրատ (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · pt nitrato de amônio (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · ml അമോണിയം നൈട്രേറ്റ് (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · uz ammoniy nitrat (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · fa آمونیوم نیترات (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · ms ammonium nitrat (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · mi haukini pākawaota (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · tr amonyum nitrat (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · da ammoniumnitrat (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · ro nitrat de amoniu (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · hu ammónium-nitrát (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · eo amonia nitrato (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · ja 硝安 (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · cmn 硝酸銨 /硝酸铵 (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · es nitrato de amonio (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · lt amonio nitratas (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · eu amonio nitrato (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · ca nitrat d'amoni (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · ast nitratu d'amoniu (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · el νιτρικό αμμώνιο (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · gl nitrato de amonio (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · fr nitrate d'ammonium (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · es nitrato amónico (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · sh amonijev nitrat (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · mk амониум нитрат (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · sv ammoniumnitrat (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · it nitrato di ammonio (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · is ammóníumnítrat (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · it nitrato d'ammonio (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · fi ammoniumnitraatti (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · ro azotat de amoniu (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · sl amonijev nitrat (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · id amonium nitrat (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · uk нітрат амонію (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · af ammoniumnitraat (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · th แอมโมเนียมไนเตรต (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · no ammoniumnitrat (ammonium salt of nitric acid) · nl ammoniumnitraat (ammonium salt of nitric acid)