(KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive.
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Examples for "saltpetre "
Examples for "saltpetre "
1 Gunpowder was also made with saltpetre and sulphur found in the country.
2 But I could find no saltpetre ; indeed, no nitrates of any kind.
3 A large building in which quantities of saltpetre was stored caught next.
4 There is no appearance of sulphur, saltpetre or any other combustible material.
5 He got saltpetre and one or two other things from the chemist.
1 But I could find no saltpeter ; indeed, no nitrates of any kind.
2 I thought Don needed ten pounds of saltpeter pumped up a catheter.
3 The bag is in case you spot saltpeter crystals along the way.
4 Procure us some iron for the barrels, steel for the hammers, saltpeter .
5 They found a place where saltpeter was very thinly and erratically distributed.
1 And all that was in the bottle was sweet spirits of niter .
2 The regulus of cobalt, dissolved in spirit of niter , gives a red.
3 Probably extract their niter from the dung of their horses and cows.
4 This niter - soaked fabric I thought might serve as tinder for the spark.
5 Trails of niter ran down the walls like melted wax.
1 On cooling, potassium nitrate crystallizes out, leaving small amounts of the other salts in solution.
2 As the potassium nitrate burns, it lets off oxygen.
3 Gunpowder, a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate , gets its oxygen from the nitrate.
4 Instead, they'd purchased potassium nitrate for use in glass-making-glassmaking being their stated business and occupation.
5 Among the ingredients are barium nitrate, potassium perchlorate, powdered aluminum, powdered magnesium, potassium nitrate , and sulphur.
1 The regulus of cobalt, dissolved in spirit of nitre , gives a red.
2 As in orange ochre, powdered nitre may be employed in its preparation.
3 It is the salt of their speech, the nitre of their wit.
4 A tea-spoonful of sweet spirits of nitre will sometimes bring early relief.
5 I'll bring a bottle of nitre in my bag,-andshe bustled out.
6 In a little while the nitre began to come in to the powder-factories.
7 The ore is ground with the nitre to ensure complete mixing.
8 As nitre cleanses the body, so distempers and other chastisements purify the soul.
9 No doubt the hypocritical condolences of his children were as vinegar upon nitre .
10 The fungus is cut into slices and then steeped in a solution of nitre .
11 I have mixed the above with a foam of nitre , and it worked well.
12 I am only taking nitre , and in a week I shall be quite well again.
13 Some contain azotic gas, which contributes to produce nitre .
14 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Women workers preparing nitre to be taken to the Gretna munitions factory.
15 The water is of a moderate heat, and appears to be strongly impregnated with nitre .
16 But how to get this nitre was a question.
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