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The Lebanese capital Beirut was rocked on Tuesday evening local time by an explosion that has killed at least 78 people and injured thousands more.

Storing ammonium nitrate without proper safety controls would almost certainly have contributed to the explosion, says Gabriel da Silva of the University of Melbourne.

Storage of ammonium nitrate is strictly regulated in Canada to avoid a disaster like the explosion that rocked Beirut on Tuesday.

Here is the information he has gathered about the explosion in Beirut. Lebanese officials say that thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse at the port in […] ...

Lebanese officials say that thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse at the port in Beirut caused the powerful explosion that devastated the city on Tuesday, killing more than ...

News What is ammonium nitrate, blamed in the Beirut explosion? An aerial view of ruined structures at the port, damaged by an explosion a day earlier, on August 5, 2020 in Beirut, Lebanon.

The explosion occurred on August 4, at a warehouse in Beirut's major port. The Lebanese President Michel Aoun has confirmed the blast was caused by 2,750 t of AN that had been stored unsafely in a ...