About 27 tons of explosive chemicals lost during rail shipment in U.S.: media


By Xia Lin

NEW YORK, May 22 (Xinhua) -- About 60,000 pounds (about 27 tons) of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used as a fertilizer and in explosives, went missing on a rail shipment in the United States in April and has still not been found, reported The New York Times on Sunday.

Dyno Nobel, an explosive manufacturing company, notified the federal government of the loss and said in a statement that it was investigating what happened during the nearly two-week journey from Wyoming to California, according to the report.

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