ammonium nitrate (English, noun)
expansion: ammonium nitrate (uncountable)
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topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 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).
tags: uncountable
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