anhydrous

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In 2002, its radio stations in Minot, N.D., aired canned music as a toxic cloud blanketed the community after a train transporting anhydrous ammonia for fertilizer derailed and exploded.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

A fertilizer plant battered by Hurricane Ida belched highly toxic anhydrous ammonia into the air.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021

He said there is no risk from the toxic, explosive anhydrous ammonia at the site that prompted evacuations in a 1.1 mile radius from the fire Saturday.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2021

The pilot sat in an ejection seat that suggested the electric chair, in front of a fuel compartment containing 2,400 gallons of liquid oxygen and anhydrous ammonia.

From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2019

Anhy′drides, a term now commonly given to the compounds formerly known as anhydrous acids—in some cases the result of the dehydration of acids, and in all cases representing in their composition the acid minus water.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various