TEXAS, USA — The investigation is just beginning after a massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon. At least 135 people have died and another 5,000 were hurt after about 2,700 tons of ammonium ...

Instead the catastrophe in Texas City was caused by the same material that apparently triggered a massive explosion in Beirut earlier this week: ammonium nitrate August 6, 2020 ...

Explosions in Texas City, West, Texas and Oklahoma City were caused by ammonium nitrate -- the same product believed to have blown up in Beirut Tuesday. The explosion in Beirut Tuesday killed more ...

Bill Minutaglio, author of 'City on Fire,' discusses the 1947 explosion in Texas City of a ship full of ammonium nitrate that killed hundreds and left thousands wounded.

The explosion at a Central Texas fertilizer plant Wednesday night could have been caused by ammonia gas or the more well-known explosive, ammonium nitrate, according to chemists. Neal Langerman ...

Texas City, Beirut linked by dangers of ammonium nitrate By J.R. Gonzales , Staff writer Updated Aug 9, 2020 5:38 p.m. A styrene plant became a roaring inferno on April 16, 1947, in Texas City.

Lebanon's government has blamed a large quantity of poorly stored ammonium nitrate for the huge blast that rocked its capital, Beirut, killing scores of people and devastating swathes of the city.

Ammonium nitrate%2C NH4NO3%2C was also the explosive in the 1995 terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City. Among the nearly 600 dead were 27 members of the Texas City volunteer fire department .

Ammonium nitrate was involved in the 1947 Texas City disaster, one of the largest industrial explosions in history. But the chemical has a more nefarious use -- as an explosive.

Explosions in Texas City, West, Texas and Oklahoma City were caused by ammonium nitrate -- the same product believed to have blown up in Beirut Tuesday. The explosion in Beirut Tuesday killed more ...