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- Patent Title: Method for limiting the use of an ammonium nitrate fertilizer as a precursor for an explosive and composition therefor
- Patent Title (中): 限制使用硝酸铵肥料作为爆炸物及其组合物的前体的方法
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Application No.: US14422812Application Date: 2013-08-28
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Publication No.: US09328031B2Publication Date: 2016-05-03
- Inventor: Francois Ledoux , Bart De Moor
- Applicant: YARA INTERNATIONAL ASA
- Applicant Address: NO Oslo
- Assignee: YARA INTERNATIONAL ASA
- Current Assignee: YARA INTERNATIONAL ASA
- Current Assignee Address: NO Oslo
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind and Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: NO20120975 20120829
- International Application: PCT/EP2013/067800 WO 20130828
- International Announcement: WO2014/033161 WO 20140306
- Main IPC: C05B1/02
- IPC: C05B1/02 ; C05C1/00 ; C05G3/00

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a fertilizer composition comprising ammonium nitrate, of which the potential misuse as a precursor for an explosive is limited on the one hand, without hampering its legitimate use by farmers for food production on the other hand, to a method for the preparation of said fertilizer composition, and to the use thereof. The fertilizer composition comprising ammonium nitrate comprises a non-hygroscopic agent which is able to form a non-hygroscopic fertilizer composition with ammonium nitrate under normal conditions of storage and use, and to form an hygroscopic composition with ammonium nitrate after said fertilizer composition is contacted with water, and optionally a foaming agent. According to one embodiment, the non-hygroscopic agent is selected from the group of non-hygroscopic urea double salts, in particular urea calcium nitrate (UCaN).
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