Lebanese officials are blaming the blast, which has killed over 100 people and left 300,000 homeless, on the common fertilizer compound ammonium nitrate (NH 4 NO 3). The chemistry behind ammonium ...

High nitrate levels are directly impacting about 2,000 people in East and West Hempfield townships after the townships’ water authority issued a drinking water warning. Hempfield Water Authority ...

A recent study, however, witnessed the 4f orbital in a cerium-based compound actively participate in bond formation, triggering a unique chemical reaction. The researchers observed that a cerium ...

Agricultural policies boosting food production have driven nitrate pollution by promoting intensive fertiliser use and livestock expansion. Excess nitrogen runoff, worsened by heavy rainfall and ...

Greenpeace says the levels of nitrate in Ashburton's water supply have reached unsafe levels. Greenpeace is sounding alarms over Ashburton’s water, claiming nitrate levels in some supplies pose ...

The Arc’teryx Cerium Down Hoody is on sale for $321, a seldom-seen 19% discount from its normal price of $400. This cozy warm winter layer is available in two colorways—green and red—at this ...

There is not a single district, out of the 33 in the state, which is not plagued by the problem of excessive nitrate concentrations, the levels being more than the permissible limits. According to ...

Some words may be mispronounced. Drinking water in Cedar Rapids had one of its worst prolonged spikes of nitrate contamination this year amid a very wet spring and early summer that followed years ...

Ammonium nitrate fertilizer, chemically classified as an oxidizer, is commonly used in agriculture and for commercial and residential turf grass. Approximately 7 million tons of ammonium nitrate ...

PRATT —Nitrate pollution has forced a central Kansas town to shut off two wells that make up nearly one-quarter of its total permissible water supply. The state of Kansas will help Pratt afford ...