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ammonium nitrates

ammonium nitrates is the plural of ammonium nitrate.

Meaning of ammonium nitrate

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

Questions about ammonium nitrates

What is ammonium nitrates the plural of?
Ammonium nitrates is the plural of ammonium nitrate.

Words near ammonium nitrates in the dictionary

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

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