"nitrate" is an English word.
You can use it in a variety of contexts, including in scientific, technical, and medical writing. For example: "The soil in this region has a high nitrate content, making it ideal for growing vegetables."
Ammonium nitrate and aluminium powder were taken to the camp and they carried out experiments, one of which blew a hole in the ground, even though they used less than 1kg of ammonium nitrate.
The vast majority of Taliban IEDs rely for their explosives on ammonium nitrate, an ingredient in certain fertilizers, prompting a US effort to halt the influx of those fertilizers and related material into Afghanistan.
Khyam, Garcia and Hussain are accused of possessing 600kg of ammonium nitrate fertiliser - discovered by police in a storage unit in west London - for terrorist purposes, and Khyam and Shujah Mahmood are charged with possessing aluminium powder, which can also be used to make bombs.
Babar had obtained aluminium powder at Khyam's request and later found out ammonium nitrate was being kept in his flat in Lahore, where Khyam was staying.
The prosecutor said Babar had pleaded guilty in the US to obtaining ammonium nitrate and aluminium powder for use in UK bomb attacks.
Even being close to the barrels gives me a spinny, achey pressure in my temples, of the kind you might experience when sniffing too much amyl nitrate.
Angered by an increase in Bolivian tax on nitrate miners, Chile invaded the port of Antofagasta in 1879.
The nitrate mines fuelled Chile's economy and fertilised Europe's farms.On July 2nd 1909, with the help of an engineer named Carl Bosch from the BASF company, Fritz Haber succeeded in combining nitrogen (from the air) with hydrogen (from coal) to make ammonia.
Overkill with nitrate fertilisers (which are also a source of greenhouse gases) appears partly responsible.
However, the researchers found, concentrations of silver ions low enough to leave human cells unscathed nonetheless appear to wreak havoc on bacterial ones.Using a dye that glows in the presence of hydroxyl radical, Dr Morones-Ramirez treated the bacterium Escherichia coli with silver nitrate (a source of silver ions).
One promising area is the trading of nitrate emissions between factories and farmers.
