Investigators say the presence of explosive materials inside the home caused the blast and fire that killed four people on Aug. 3, Franklin Township police said in a statement Tuesday morning.

Your report on the explosion at Tianjin in China mentions that “ammonium and potassium nitrate… would have exploded” (22 August, p 6). But potassium nitrate is neither explosive nor ...

Federal prosecutors Friday charged a Mogadore resident with lying to authorities about explosives following ... Officers found 10 pounds of potassium perchlorate, as well as potassium nitrate, ...

The explosive contained rocket fuel and were found at a home on University Avenue. ... Inhalation, ingestion or contact potassium nitrate can cause severe injury, burns or death.

Chemicals that could possibly be used to make explosives were found inside a Queens home Tuesday ... As much as 40 pounds of potassium nitrate along with some fuses were found at the Astoria ...

Orange police said when they searched Dodson’s vehicle, they found about 10 pounds of Potassium Perchlorate, Potassium Nitrate, powered sugar, batteries, Vaseline and a black tactical bag with ...

Among the materials found inside a vehicle on the property were 74 pounds of potassium nitrate, 15 pounds of aluminum powder, six pounds of Explosive materials in New Jersey home caused blast that ...

A woman entered the station's lobby with possible explosive material. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Menu. Search site.

Binary explosives are two-part mixtures of components that aren’t explosive on their own. The original patent for Tannerite describes a mixture of ammonium nitrate, ammonium perchlorate and ...

Of the 16,000 improvised explosive devices placed or detonated last year in Afghanistan, many were designed with ammonium nitrate ... homemade explosives in Afghanistan use potassium ...

Potassium nitrate (KNO 3), known historically as saltpeter or the mineral niter, is a common salt with multiple uses.It has been known since antiquity; an early appearance in the chemical literature ...

Ammonium nitrate was the main suspected chemical in a Texas explosion that killed 14 people in April 2013. The explosion at West Fertilizer Co. also injured more than 200 and left at least 50 ...