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

The railroad says it also carries fertilizers, including phosphate, urea, ammonium sulfate, ammonium nitrate and anhydrous ammonia.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2022

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

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 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

If it behaves like the other forms of anhydrous silica it will withstand the action of all acids except hydrofluoric acid.

From The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame For the use of chemical and physical students by Shenstone, W. A.