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The hazards of Ammonium Nitrate and 100 years of related disasters

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But Ammonium Nitrate also has a lethal downside because the compound is considered an oxidizer, meaning at an atomic level, it removes electrons from other substances in a chemical reaction which means that it increases the burning of fuels by increasing the oxygen that’s available to those fuels. An Aetna Chemical Co.