ammonium nitrate

1. 1.

   used as an explosive and fertilizer and rocket propellant

   Broadernitrate

Questions about ammonium nitrate

What does ammonium nitrate mean?

ammonium nitrate means "used as an explosive and fertilizer and rocket propellant".

Is ammonium nitrate a common word?

ammonium nitrate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.