Urea nitrate

Urea nitrate is a plant food-based high explosive that has been used to make bombs to attack people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and a few other terrorist acts in other places around the world such as in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings and the 7 July 2005 London bombings.  It has a destroying power like the more well-known ammonium nitrate bombs, with a speed of explosion between  and .

Urea nitrate is made in one step when  urea with nitric acid are mixed. This is an exothermic reaction.

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Category:Explosives
Category:Ureas
Category:Nitrates