Nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate - taken from a ship off the coast of Beirut six years ago and then stored in a warehouse - has been blamed for the explosion that ripped through the port ...

The Lebanese government has resigned amid growing public anger following a devastating explosion in Beirut on 4 August that killed at least 200 people and injured around 5,000 others. Here is what ...

Campaigners have expressed concern about the condition of the cargo, which is arriving Monday on the Barbados-flagged Zimrida ...

Investigators probing the deadly blast that levelled parts of Beirut ... Tuesday’s explosion was likely caused by the detonation of more than 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate that had been ...

The Beirut ammonium nitrate explosion The explosions that occurred on August 4, 2020, in Beirut, were linked to the ...

With Lebanon already suffering from a devastating economic crisis, many worry about how the port explosion will further ... port warehouse 12 where the Ammonium Nitrate was stored.

just one area will experience those happenings after an explosion, but this time it was all of Beirut, even areas outside of Beirut. Ammonium nitrate has a number of different uses, but the two ...

"We're receiving about 15 to 17 tons from Beirut right now ... leading the initiative. The explosion on August 4, sparked when about 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate caught fire in a warehouse ...

The chemicals that went up in flames in Beirut’s deadliest peace-time explosion arrived in the ... their journey onto Africa, where the ammonium nitrate was to be delivered to an explosives ...

The explosion is the biggest in Beirut in years, Reuters said, quoting the country’s president, Michel Aoun, as saying 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate had been stored for six years at the port ...

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Ammonium nitrate is a highly volatile industrial chemical used in fertilizer and explosives, and has been responsible for a ...