Asker's rating. 1  Ammonium nitrate is the chemical compound NH4 NO3. So there would be 3 different elements: nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen. 2  Ammonium nitrate is NH4NO3, making it three different elements: nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen. mmonkeyccup · 1 decade ago. 3  3 elements in ammonnium nitrate, NH4NO3. N from nitrogen, H from hydogen and O from oxygen. NH4 + + NO3---> NH4NO3. The compound consists of 2 polyatomic ions : first, NH4(1 positive charge) which consists of a)Nitrogen and b) Hydrogen, and the second one is NO3 (1 negative charge)consisting of Nitrogen and Oxygen.