Nearly 3,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate - taken from a ship off the coast of Beirut six years ago and then stored in a warehouse - has been blamed for the explosion that ripped through the port ...

Many labs use a test called the ammonium acetate test to measure K. If your soil has a low CEC of 5 or less, any soil test above 115 ppm for K using the AA test require no additional K fertilizer. The ...

Fertilizers common to crop production in Indiana usually contain nitrogen in one or more of the following forms: nitrate, ammonia, ammonium or urea. Each form has specific properties that determine ...

A cargo ship packed with potentially explosive ammonium nitrate remains adrift in the English Channel off the coast of France. The Maltese-registered Ruby is carrying 20,000 tonnes of the chemical ...

Less often, an alkyl or aryl halide is treated with a carboxylate salt. But these methods don’t work in the case of vinyl acetate and other vinyl esters because vinyl alcohols aren’t stable—they ...

The MV Rhosus arrived at the port in 2013 carrying 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate Lebanon's government has blamed the huge blast that devastated parts of Beirut on the detonation of 2,750 tonnes ...

d These are ester salts. One of the few -ium -ate suffix exceptions is bretylium tosylate, which is a quaternary ammonium salt (see Table 3). e One OH group on phosphoric acid is esterified with ...

Ammonia, NH 3, is an alkaline gas and so turns damp red litmus paper blue. Ammonium ions (NH 4 +) – found in ammonium compounds such as ammonium chloride, ammonium nitrate and ammonium sulfate ...