Ammonium nitrate

The Oklahoma City Bombing happened on April 19, 1995. This terrorist attack was the worst terrorist attack to happen before 9/11. The truck was packed with 4,800-pounds of explosives which consisted of diesel-fuel and fertilizer (ammonium nitrate). The bomb was detonated on April 19, 1995 just outside Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City shortly after 9am (Nacos, 2016). This catastrophic blast killed one hundred sixty-eight people and injured hundreds more (Nacos,…

NaBiO3 (s) 6 M nitric acid, HNO3 0.1 M potassium thiocyanate, KSCN 6 M ammonia/ammonium hydroxide, NH3 3% hydrogen peroxide, H2O2 6 M sulfuric acid, H2SO4 Sodium bismuthate, NaBiO3 (s) 6 M sodium hydroxide, NaOH Cation Solutions 0.2 M silver nitrate, AgNO3 0.5 M lead (II) nitrate, Pb(NO3)2 0.2 M mercury (I) nitrate, Hg2(NO3)2 0.2 M iron (III) nitrate, Fe(NO3)3 0.2 M copper (II) nitrate, Cu(NO3)2 0.2 M manganese (II) nitrate, Mn(NO3)2 Equipment…

a flood, the labels from three bottles of chemicals were lost. The three unlabeled bottles of white solids were known to contain the following substances: strontium nitrate, ammonium carbonate, and potassium sulfate. Explain in great detail how you could easily test the substances and re-label the three bottles. (Hint: Ammonium ions do not provide a distinctive flame color). To easily test the substances and re-label the three bottles you could create a flame with the substances and use…

catalysts to boosts the reaction. In this step, nitrogen (except for those in nitrates and nitrites) are converted into ammonia and other organic matter to C02 and H20. After digestion, neutralization is done. When the digestion is completed the flask is then connected to a receiving flask. Sodium hydroxide is then added to the solution in the flask to form an alkaline which converts the ammonium sulfate into ammonium gas. The ammonia gas is then released from the solution into the receiving…

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on Aprils 19, 1995 was one of the worst attacks in American soil. This attack took the lives of 168 innocent people including 19 children and injuring more than 500 people. According to McVeigh’s letter he wrote to Fox News, he decided to bomb a federal building because he had no other options, and he did it as retaliation. He described it as a counter attack for the damage and violence that the federal agents had…

Energy Flow and Nutrient Cycling in the Epipelagic Zone of the Ocean Introduction: “Energy Flow’’ is an environmental process that describes the flow of energy through a food chain and attempts to ascertain the relative importance of various individual component species and feeding relationships within a particular ecosystem. “Energy” itself is defined as the ability to do work: All living plants and animals expend energy in their environment. All three laws of thermodynamics apply,…

Forensics showed that the bomber had started to use more lethal explosives. There was a mix of ammonium nitrate and aluminum powder. The bomb's shrapnel consisted of tacks, nails, and bits of lead (Unabomber Case and Trail, 2005). Stamped on the end seal of the bomb's pipe was the initials FC. June 13, a short time later, a similar bomb showed up at a…

to the stream and seeing how much nitrate, phosphates, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, temperature, and pH is in the water. The stream team will look at the effect on water quality, the effect on plants and animals, the acceptable levels for swimming, sources and sources categorized, the best management practices, whether the sources are point source, or nonpoint source pollutants, and the test results. The stream team will be doing all of those topics over nitrate, phosphate, dissolved oxygen,…

surrounding area (McNeill, Pell, and Roberts, 2013). An investigation conducted after the calamity found a failure of compliance of the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act by West Fertilizer Company (WFC), as they did not list ammonium nitrate on required paperwork submitted to the Texas Department of State Health Services and the West Volunteer Fire Department (McNeill, Pell, and Roberts, 2013). Moreover, firefighters and emergency responders were unprepared to respond to the…

The nitrogen in the ecosystem is from natural events. Nitrates are mostly ammonium and nitrate. This compound is used in the ecosystem for the growth, repair, and reproduction of plants. Nitrogen appears in a lot of natural processes. Some plants take atmospheric nitrogen and convert it to nitrogen that they can actually use…