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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colorless crystalline salt, NH4NO3, used in fertilizers, explosives, and solid rocket propellants.
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- noun inorganic chemistry The ammonium
salt ofnitric acid , NH4NO3; it is used infertilizers andexplosives (notably inimprovised explosive devices )
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- noun used as an explosive and fertilizer and rocket propellant
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