English-German translations for ammonium nitrate

• Ammoniumnitrat das
  Die Auswirkungen der Massenexplosion von Ammoniumnitrat, zu der es dort offenbar kam, waren weit über das Betriebsgelände hinaus zu spüren. The effects of what seems to have been a mass explosion of ammonium nitrate were felt far outside the establishment's boundaries.
  Wir waren jedoch auch der Überzeugung, dass die Schwellenwerte für Ammoniumnitrat geändert werden müssen, um die Konsequenzen aus dem Unfall in Toulouse zu ziehen. However, we believed that it was also necessary to amend the thresholds for ammonium nitrate so as to take into account the accident in Toulouse.
  Neben anderen gefährlichen Stoffen befanden sich dort größere Mengen flüssigen Ammoniaks und Chlor, brennbare Stoffe, festes Ammoniumnitrat und Düngemittel sowie Methanol. Amongst other dangerous substances it held important quantities of liquefied ammonia and chlorine, combustibles, solid ammonium nitrate and fertilisers, as well as methanol.

Definition of ammonium nitrate

• 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

Related words

• ammonium
• ammoniumklorid
• alkylammonium
• cuproammonium
• cuprammonium
• oxoammonium
• ammonium#Английский|ammonium
• ammonium chloride
• ammonium ion
• ammonium phosphate