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ammonium nitrate

US/əmˈmoʊniəmˌnaɪtɹeɪt/

ammonium nitrate noun: 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).

ammonium nitrate: the ammonium salt of nitric acid, NH₄NO₃; it is used in fertilizers and explosives (notoriously in...
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Noun

ammonium nitrate (uncountable)

  1. 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

ammonium nitrate meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Malay

ammonium nitrate in Tamil

அமோனியநைத்திரேற்று, அம்மோனியம் நைட்ரேட்

ammonium nitrate in Bengali

অ্যামোনিয়াম নাইট্রেট

ammonium nitrate in Malayalam

ammonium salt of nitric acid
അമോണിയം നൈട്രേറ്റ് amōṇiyaṁ naiṭrēṟṟŭ

ammonium nitrate in Malay

ammonium salt of nitric acid
ammonium nitrat
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ammonium nitrate in Indonesian
amonium nitrat
ammonium nitrate in Persian
آمونیوم نیترات
ammonium nitrate in Thai
แอมโมเนียมไนเตรต

Words formed from ammonium nitrate

Questions about ammonium nitrate

What does ammonium nitrate mean?
Ammonium nitrate means 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).
What is ammonium nitrate in Tamil?
Ammonium nitrate in Tamil is அமோனியநைத்திரேற்று, அம்மோனியம் நைட்ரேட். See Ammonium nitrate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ammonium nitrate?
Ammonium nitrate is a noun.
How do you pronounce ammonium nitrate?
Ammonium nitrate is pronounced /əmˈmoʊniəmˌnaɪtɹeɪt/ (US).

Words near ammonium nitrate in the dictionary

  1. ammonium chloride
  2. ammonium hydroxide
  3. ammonium imine
  4. ammonium imines
  5. ammonium laureth sulfate
  6. ammonium nitrate
  7. ammonium nitrates
  8. ammonium phosphate
  9. ammonium phosphatide
  10. ammonium phosphatides
  11. ammonium polyvanadate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ammonium nitrate (page history and authors); ammonium nitrate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ammonium nitrate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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