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Other examples are bicarbonate of soda, cream of tartar, calcium oxalate, and saltpetre.
The salt most used is common salt, sodium chloride, but saltpetre has similar effects.
In 1913 the only commercial fertilizer was Chile saltpetre, and it was running out.
Iodine is mined as sodium iodate, NaIO 3, which is present in Chile saltpetre.
We're using a Wiltshire wet cure, consisting of beer, salt, black treacle, black peppercorns, juniper berries and saltpetre.
Sodium nitrate, or soda nitre, NaNO3, is commonly called Chile saltpetre, after its mineral deposits in northern Chile, the principal source.
The school-ship SUOMEN JOUTSEN is in fact the former LAENNEC, built at St Nazaire in 1902, used to carry saltpetre from Chile.
During the French revolution, the north Chapel was badly treated being used for saltpetre storage.
Government officials had the power to scrape up dried urine from beneath the boarded floors of the stables because it contained saltpetre, a vital ingredient of gunpowder.
Deba and Mutriku are still looking seawards, saltpetre on the lips, offering a unique coastline of cliffs sculpted by the waves and the wind.
Damp, brittle and saltpetre support: Wet the support well and get rid of traces of saltpetre on the surface.
The dissolutive water is made from vitriol of Cyprus, saltpetre, Jamenous Allom, and sal ammoniac, and it became known as aqua regia, the king of waters.
They also get then some Chile saltpetre to get the growth in it again.
The Company traded in basic commodities, which included cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium.
In the 19th century, densely-packed countries like Germany and Britain began to improve the fertility of their soils by importing nitrogen in the form of guano from the Pacific islands of Peru, and saltpetre mined in Chile.
There is no way to make a strong and vigorous powder of saltpetre, without the admixtion of sulphur.
Roger Bacon discovered the explosive possibilities in a combination of saltpetre, sulphur and charcoal and produced gunpowder in the 13th century: the present century saw the birth of the atom bomb.
Coarse salt and saltpetre are easily obtainable.
The main economic resource gradually shifted from wheat to saltpetre.
The economic crisis of saltpetre reduced the importance of the port, and, at the same time, Santiago consolidated its status as the political and economic centre of the country.
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Another way is to take two unciae of ore, a semi-uncia of litharge, two drachmae of Venetian glass and a semi-uncia of saltpetre.
Lay the head into water one night, then drain it, salt it extremely well with common salt and saltpetre, and let it lie five days.
The water is seen oozing forth from the many bogs, and has a saltish taste, impregnated with saltpetre and sulphur.
I frankly don't know how we could insulate the peas from the effects of the saltpetre.
Another cement is made of a bes of brick dust, a third of rock salt, an uncia of saltpetre, and half an uncia of refined salt.
Make a strong brine with bay salt, common salt, and saltpetre, and put in ribs of beef for nine days.
Beat fine two ounces of saltpetre, and two pounds of bay salt well dried, and mix them with some of the heated salt.
Thirdly, that an undue proportion of saltpetre had been mixed with the alum.
How would you have me manufacture gun powder on board, without either saltpetre, sulphur, or charcoal?
Take equal parts of salt, saltpetre, and alum, pulverize and mix.
India was famous for the exportation of saltpetre, and is so.
Gunpowder was also made with saltpetre and sulphur found in the country.
This is principally due to the saltpetre with which it is impregnated.
What proportion of nitre does the saltpetre of the nitrate caves afford?
There was a smell in his nostrils like charring wool and saltpetre.
From here, also, indigo and saltpetre are exported in large quantities.
Mercury, sulphur, saltpetre or nitre, I do not know that they have.
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