Ammonium nitrate is a commonly used fertilizer, but when mixed with a fuel such as diesel, it makes a powerful explosive – as seen in last week’s fertilizer plant explosion in Texas. But it's the ...

The key to fertilizer bombs is the ammonium nitrate. When mixed with a fuel like diesel, this agricultural staple becomes the highly explosive, raw ingredient for many improvised explosive devices ...

Researchers in China have developed an advanced biochar-based material that dramatically improves the removal of harmful ...

Researchers have developed a biochar composite enhanced with nZVI that dramatically improves the removal of harmful nitrate ...

My days of knifing people are over. (What can I say? I’m on my third strike.) But when I get nostalgic, there is a way to make fake knife slashes on a person that look real. And better yet, you can ...

QUESTION: Can the ammonium nitrate in that train wreck explode like a bomb? ANSWER: You must be referring to the train-truck collision near Nelson in Buffalo County that occurred on May 17. According ...

Nitrate-reducing bacteria (Pseudomonas fluorescens and Alcaligenes sp.) as well as extracellular compounds from these bacteria increased the dissolution rate of iron and phosphorus sorbed to iron ...