September 23, 2008
Honeywell Develops Safer Ammonium Nitrate-Based Fertilizer; Receives Safety Act Designation From U.S. Department Of Homeland Security
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MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., Sept. 23, 2008 — Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced today it has developed a patented new technology to produce a highly-effective, safer ammonium nitrate-based fertilizer with significantly lower explosive potential.
September 23, 2008
NY Times: New Process Eliminates a Fertilizer’s Blast Threat
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A major chemical company will announce Tuesday that it has found a way to render nitrogen fertilizer useless as an explosive, and improve its value to some crops.
September 25, 2008
Scientific American: A Fertilizer Good for Only Growing Things, Not Destroying Them
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You might not know it but fertilizer is the explosive of choice for budget-conscious terrorists. The blasts at the World Trade Center in 1993, Oklahoma City Federal Building in 1995 and on rush-hour London buses and trains in 2005 all contained ammonium nitrate fertilizer (which is manufactured in bulk as an explosive by the U.S. and other countries as well as by companies.)