ammonium nitrate

English

Ammonium nitrate

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /əmˈmoʊniəmˌnaɪtɹeɪt/

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Noun

ammonium nitrate (uncountable)

1. (inorganic chemistry) The ammonium salt of nitric acid, NH₄NO₃; it is used in fertilizers and explosives (notoriously in improvised explosive devices, though its main importance is as an explosive in its own right and in mixtures such as amatol and ANFO).
   • 2020 August 5, John Ismay, “What Is Ammonium Nitrate, Blamed in the Beirut Explosion?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 September 2025:

     According to the Lebanese government, about 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer was stored in a warehouse on the Beirut waterfront and caught fire, later exploding.

Derived terms

• ammonite
• ANFO

Related terms

• amatol
• ammonite
• ammonitrate

Translations

ammonium salt of nitric acid

• Afrikaans: ammoniumnitraat
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ամոնիումի նիտրատ (amoniumi nitrat)
• Asturian: nitratu d'amoniu m
• Azerbaijani: ammonium nitrat
• Basque: amonio nitrato
• Bulgarian: амониев нитрат m (amoniev nitrat)
• Catalan: nitrat d'amoni m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 硝酸銨 / 硝酸铵 (zh) (xiāosuān'ǎn)

• Czech: dusičnan amonný m
• Danish: ammoniumnitrat
• Dutch: ammoniumnitraat (nl) n
• Esperanto: amonia nitrato
• Finnish: ammoniumnitraatti
• French: nitrate d'ammonium (fr) m
• Galician: nitrato de amonio (gl) m
• German: Ammoniumnitrat (de) n
• Greek: νιτρικό αμμώνιο n (nitrikó ammónio)
• Hungarian: ammónium-nitrát (hu)
• Icelandic: ammóníumnítrat
• Indonesian: amonium nitrat
• Irish: níotráit amóiniam f
• Italian: nitrato di ammonio (it), nitrato d'ammonio m
• Japanese: 硝安 (しょうあん, shōan)
• Latvian: amonija nitrāts
• Lithuanian: amonio nitratas
• Macedonian: амониум нитрат m (amonium nitrat)
• Malay: ammonium nitrat
• Malayalam: അമോണിയം നൈട്രേറ്റ് (amōṇiyaṁ naiṭrēṟṟŭ)
• Māori: haukini pākawaota
• Mongolian: аммонийн нитрат (ammoniin nitrat)
• Norwegian: ammoniumnitrat
• Persian: آمونیوم نیترات
• Polish: azotan amonu m inan
• Portuguese: nitrato de amônio m
• Romanian: nitrat de amoniu m, azotat de amoniu m
• Serbo-Croatian: amonijev nitrat m
• Slovak: dusičnan amónny m
• Slovene: amonijev nitrat m
• Spanish: nitrato de amonio m, nitrato amónico m
• Swedish: ammoniumnitrat (sv)
• Thai: แอมโมเนียมไนเตรต
• Turkish: amonyum nitrat (tr)
• Ukrainian: нітрат амонію m (nitrat amoniju)
• Uzbek: ammoniy nitrat

Further reading

• ammonium nitrate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia