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 ...

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A store of ammonium nitrate has been determined as the source of the explosion at a Central Texas fertilizer plant that left 14 dead and hundreds more injured. The findings were expected since ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

Hours later, the nearby High Flyer, also loaded with ammonium nitrate ... indicative of a nitrate-based explosion. Many in Texas City watching the burning Grandcamp had a similar observation.

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 ...