A 110-pound bag of ammonium nitrate costs $160 in Afghanistan; the same-size bag of potassium chlorate goes for $48, according to JIEDDO. The average IED in 2012 contained about 52 pounds of ...

One man is facing charges after homemade explosives used to make fireworks were seized from his home in Laurel County.

Although chemists have long known that using potassium nitrate could create explosive silicon, this was the first time another common salt compound produced the same results. "It was really ...

Scores of cops and federal agents evacuated a Staten Island neighborhood yesterday after tracing a huge shipment of explosive chemicals to a Graniteville man, police said. Investigators determined … ...

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.

Explosive materials that caused a deadly house fire and explosion in New Jersey could have been used for homemade fireworks. ... Some of those materials included 74 pounds of potassium nitrate, ...

Potassium nitrate is used in making explosives. Huge quantity of explosive substances were seized from a goods vehicle in Chitpur area of the city, a senior Kolkata Police officer said Saturday.

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.