Everyone standing nearby, including almost the entire Texas City Volunteer ... warehouse containing ammonium nitrate exploded. Two years before that, there was a massive explosion at a fertilizer ...

In April of 1947, an ammonium nitrate explosion in Texas City killed 581 people and injured thousands more. Longshoremen had spent five days loading sacks of ammonium nitrate onto a ship.

TEXAS CITY, Texas (KTRK) -- Officials believe more than 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate ignited, causing a massive explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday, killing scores and injuring hundreds.

The Texas City explosion led to changes in how ammonium nitrate should be handled and created something new at the time: disaster planning. But 66 years later, another Texas town suffered from the ...

Perhaps the closest comparison to Beirut's explosion, in terms of scale, is a blast in Texas City in 1947, which was caused by 2,300 US tons (about 2,087 metric tons) of ammonium nitrate.

This confinement and injection of steam is likely to have resulted in the elevation of the temperature of the ammonium nitrate and the explosion that occurred. Texas City's volunteer fire ...

Sixty-six years almost to the day after the Texas City disaster – April 17, 2013 - an ammonium nitrate fertilizer explosion devastated another Texas town. Fifteen people died and hundreds were ...

There were 270 tons of ammonium ... ammonium nitrate mixed with fuel oil in the 1995 Oklahoma City attack Federal investigators haven't determined the cause of a horrific fire and explosion ...

Ammonium nitrate on its own is not itself classified as dangerous. PARIS and LONDON -- An explosion at a warehouse stocked with 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the Beirut port changed the face ...

Ammonium nitrate is an industrial chemical ... in terms of scale, is a blast in Texas City in 1947. The fire caused an explosion and additional fires that damaged more than 1,000 buildings and ...