The explosive compounds hexahydro-1 f 3,5-trinitro-1 , 3,5-triazine (RDX) and 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) are widespread environmental contaminants commonly found as co-pollutants on military training ...

A recent explosion near Delhi's Red Fort, resulting in 12 fatalities, was linked to ammonium nitrate, reportedly carried by ...

Grand Island has hit a 33-year milestone. Groundwater contaminated with unsafe levels of TNT and RDX is no longer beneath Grand Island city limits. “Our cleanup has been successful, and things have ...

Bombers and bomb makers could soon be exposed by testing their hair for traces of explosives. Jimmie Oxley, a chemist at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, has extracted nanograms of the common ...

Chem, based in the north-central city of Bydgoszcz, has been identified in a report cited by "The Telegraph" as a key ...

The US Army will begin producing locally manufactured Trinitrotoluene (TNT), often regarded as the world’s most powerful non-nuclear explosive, for use in bombs, hand grenades, and 155 mm artillery ...

The November 10 car blast near Delhi’s Red Fort killed 13 and injured many. Authorities suspect the use of Ammonium Nitrate fuel oil (ANFO) after the chemical was recovered from the Faridabad raid. Fo ...

A chemistry department at a British university was recently evacuated after a student made the known explosive, TATP. The chemical, tri-cyclic acetone peroxide, or TATP, was made by accident as the ...

Practical detection of two commonly used explosives may be closer at hand now that the first direct fluorescence sensor for RDX and PETN has been reported. Chemists Trisha L. Andrew and Timothy M.

Ammonium nitrate is a controlled substance in India. So how the terrorists managed to get such large quantities of ammonium ...

Scientists have discovered that a gene found in the common fruit fly can be successfully expressed in a plant and used to detoxify land contaminated with TNT. Scientists have discovered that a gene ...