Sentences with phrase «ammonium nitrate»
Ammonium nitrate is a type of chemical compound made up of ammonia and nitric acid. It is commonly used as a fertilizer for plants and as an ingredient in explosives. Full definition
The report went on to name FCA among a subset of the group that still makes non-desiccated ammonium nitrate inflators.
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CARFAX shows Ford Motor Company manufacturer safety recall on 06/30/2016: Takata non-desiccated phased stabilized ammonium nitrate PSAN passenger front airbag inflators.
The experimental plots of irrigated and tilled (disk / chisel) continuous corn have received six different rates of ammonium nitrate fertilizer (range 0 to 200 pounds / acre) for 50 years.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced today that it will stop using non-desiccated ammonium nitrate Takata inflators — the kind linked to 10 U.S. deaths from shrapnel in an airbag deployment — starting next week in the U.S. and by mid-September worldwide.
CARFAX shows manufacturer safety recall issued on 06/30/2016: Takata non desiccated phased stabilized ammonium nitrate psan passenger frontal airbag inflators.
One of Dave's essays that caught my attention involved the very interesting idea of using excess wind power to make methanol, ethanol, or even ammonium nitrate fertilizer.
Additionally, Toyota said that it will not use Takata inflators using ammonium nitrate.
The supplier has been adding drying agents to new airbags with ammonium nitrate to help absorb moisture and extend the inflator's shelf life.
The «fresh» exhaust gas now transforms into different substances: salt particles such as ammonium nitrate to mention one.
His firm is supplying the plant with CO2 — a by - product of making ammonium nitrate.
To demonstrate one potential use of the nanoparticles, the research team used them as advanced catalysts for ammonia oxidation, which is a key step in the production of nitric acid (a liquid acid that is used in the production of ammonium nitrate for fertilizers, making plastics, and in the manufacturing of dyes).
Historical cases of fertilisers detonating include one on 16 April 1947, when a boat carrying ammonium nitrate fertiliser in Texas accidentally exploded, killing almost 600 people.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Plants, show ammonium nitrate fertiliser used in wheat cultivation contributes almost half (43 per cent) of the greenhouse gas emissions — dwarfing all other processes in the supply chain.
It operates nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing facility which produces ammonia and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) fertilizers.
«In line with the recent announcement from the United States» National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, we have decided to no longer use inflators containing ammonium nitrate in airbags for future models,» Dion Corbett, a Nissan spokesman, told Automotive News in an email.
Perth - based Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has been hired to finish off work at Yara International's $ US800 million Burrup ammonium nitrate project in the Pilbara, after Downer walked off the job last week.
The phenomenon is called random lasing, and the researchers report that they used it to identify a variety of chemicals that have been found in improvised explosive devices (including ammonium nitrate, sodium nitrate, and potassium chorlate) in lab tests in which the laser beams travelled nearly 400 meters, reflected by a series of mirrors.
But not all disasters involving ammonium nitrate are accidents: The fertilizer was packed into a rented truck and used by terrorists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols to kill 168 people in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
For instance, if you were to store ammonia and nitric acid in the same cabinet, ammonium nitrate dust would form over everything in the cabinet.
A carelessly tossed cigarette started a fire aboard a ship carrying about 2,300 tons (2,086,000 kilograms) of ammonium nitrate packed in paper sacks.
The explosive force occurs when solid ammonium nitrate decomposes very rapidly into two gases, nitrous oxide and water vapor.
That's because ammonium nitrate, a chemical commonly used in agricultural fertilizers, is a highly explosive compound, as shown by the massive fireball at a fertilizer plant in the town of West, Texas, Wednesday (April 17).
Hill's left hand was positive for the separate ions — but not for the single compound ammonium nitrate.
The continuing high acidity of the sulfate particles has limited ammonium nitrate formation, the researchers believe.
Declining acidity levels in the sulfate particles had been expected to lead to an increase in the production of atmospheric ammonium nitrates.
Worst disasters West Texas blast: A deadly ammonium nitrate explosion rocked the West Fertilizer Company in Texas, prompting investigations into chemical regulations, industrial safety and zoning laws.
The syringe has a cooling chamber filled with calcium ammonium nitrate crystals — the type that are used in instant ice cold packs.
«I'm not aware of any state where ammonium nitrate is predominant source [of inorganic fertilizer] where 30, 40 years ago it might have been,» Ferguson told TechNewsDaily.
The Guardian reports that the Australian Senate is conducting an inquiry into the impact of a nearby ammonium nitrate plant, emissions from which may be threatening the ecological conditions of the site.
We're breathing ammonium nitrate, we're breathing diesel fuel.
Three million pounds of ammonium nitrate fuel oil explosives are being detonated daily in Appalachia.
Atmospheric ammonium nitrate aerosol forms if sulphate aerosol is fully neutralised and there is excess ammonia.
Made with metal canisters of ammonium nitrate which can deteriorate if exposed to prolonged heat and humidity, these airbags may be literal time - bombs.
The inflators propelled by ammonium nitrate can explode with too much force, which can result in shrapnel ejecting onto drivers and passengers.
The defective Takata airbags used a chemical explosive called ammonium nitrate.
CARFAX shows Ford Motor Company safety recalls issued: on 02/20/2008, Passenger airbag; on 05/27/2015, Driver airbag inflator replacement; and on 06/30/2016, Takata non-desiccated phased stabilized ammonium nitrate PSAN passenger frontal airbag inflators.
The report, issued July 20 by the Senate's Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, found the Mercedes - Benz Sprinter van and E-Class coupe and convertible use Takata's non-desiccated ammonium nitrate inflators, the devices deemed most rupture - prone in the industry's ongoing Takata recalls.
CARFAX shows Ford Motor Company open safety recalls opened on 05/27/2015: Driver airbag inflator replacement; and 06/30/2016: Takata non-desiccated phased stabilized ammonium nitrate PSAN passenger frontal airbag inflators.
Those dogs are trained to recognize odors associated with IEDs (such as ammonium nitrate).
The West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion on April 17 echoes an April 16, 1947, event when a ship loaded with ammonium nitrate, also a chemical fertilizer, docked at the Port of Texas City erupted in flames and exploded, killing nearly 600 people
The detonation also caused a chain reaction when a nearby ship, also carrying ammonium nitrate, exploded, setting fires at chemical tanks and oil refineries near the port.
On 19 April 1995, Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City using a home - made device containing ammonium nitrate.
Erin Diebboll, «Voyage 51 East», 2016, (Detail, Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer), pencil on paper, metal frames, dimensions variable.
The committee has asked more than a dozen automakers involved in Takata's inflator recall — including three that were added in a huge May 4 expansion — to name their current cars that use Takata's non-desiccated ammonium nitrate inflators.
The safety agency previously gave Takata until the end of 2019 to prove that its remaining airbag inflators using ammonium nitrate are fundamentally safe, but now all Takata airbags using that propellant without a chemical drying agent must be recalled.
The West, Texas, disaster will, if anything, only accelerate the declining usage of ammonium nitrate as a fertilizer, Ferguson said.
Geo: ammonium nitrate?
Left over bomb ingredients, e.g., ammonium nitrate, and bug repellent, e.g., DDT, and other chemicals were engineered into agricultural products and used to kill the plant pests and weeds.
The result is ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate, molecules that condense with others of their kind, plus water, to form tiny particles in the air that absorb sunlight and block visibility — smog.
This gradual weathering helped cut down CO2 in the ancient atmosphere to levels that were low enough for life to flourish, says Geoff Brent, senior scientist at Orica, an explosives manufacturer that will supply the pilot plant with CO2 — a by - product of its manufacture of ammonium nitrate.