On cooling, potassiumnitrate crystallizes out, leaving small amounts of the other salts in solution.
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As the potassiumnitrate burns, it lets off oxygen.
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Gunpowder, a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassiumnitrate, gets its oxygen from the nitrate.
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Instead, they'd purchased potassiumnitrate for use in glass-making-glassmaking being their stated business and occupation.
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Among the ingredients are barium nitrate, potassium perchlorate, powdered aluminum, powdered magnesium, potassiumnitrate, and sulphur.
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Paint the Sky In the beginning there was black powder - charcoal, potassiumnitrate, and sulfur.
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Lighting the fuse of a firework, ignites the powder, causing the potassiumnitrate to let off oxygen.
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A kind of blasting gelatin, easily moldable, dissolved in nitroglycerine and mixed with wood pulp and potassiumnitrate.
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It is used in enormous quantities in the manufacture of sulphuric acid and potassiumnitrate, and as a fertilizer.
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This discovery, and of the nearby saltpetre ( potassiumnitrate) mines, generated enormous interest in Europe and the United States.
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In a similar process, sodium azide and potassiumnitrate would react rapidly to produce a large pulse of hot nitrogen gas.
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The warehouse, designed for dangerous and toxic chemicals, was mainly storing ammonium nitrate, potassiumnitrate and calcium carbide, according to police.
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She says studies on animals in the 1950s indicated additives used in processed meat - potassiumnitrate and sodium nitrite - are carcinogenic.
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Which is how the Chinese came up with an odd mixture of saltpeter ( potassiumnitrate), sulfur, and charcoal or dry honey.
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The health risk of bacon is largely to do with two food additives: potassiumnitrate (also known as saltpetre) and sodium nitrite.
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The warehouse, designed to house dangerous and toxic chemicals, was storing mainly ammonium nitrate, potassiumnitrate and calcium carbide at the time, according to police.