How To Use saltpetre In A Sentence
- To them is due the discovery of antimony, sulphuric ether and phosphorus, the cupellation of gold and silver, the determining of the properties of saltpetre and its use in gunpowder, and the discovery of the distillation of essential oils. The Majesty of Calmness; individual problems and posibilities
- Removal of large amounts of ordinary cave sediment may indicate saltpeter or fertilizer mining, while gypsum, copperas, alum, or Epsom salt are usually indicated by crystalline or powdered white, yellow, or green deposits.
- Under normal circumstances the vast majority of this saltpetre is used for fertilizer purposes. Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1918 - Presentation Speech
- If you see sausages in the meat counter that are bright red they have been treated with a preservative known as saltpeter, Westphalia, or nitrates. THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK
- The two manufactures produce about three Kantars, or fifteen or sixteen quintals per month of saltpetre, which is sold at about fifteen shillings per quintal. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
- The conciliative is a supposedly pretentious for osmotically shinny and a fantabulous saltpetre for an biyearly sugi. Rational Review
- The salt most used is common salt, sodium chloride, but saltpetre (which consists of potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate) has similar effects.
- All the recipes I saw called for saltpeter, which is impossible to find because it’s also used to make explosives (and I did not know this so that might explain all the strange looks I got from shopkeepers when I asked if they stocked it). Archive 2008-12-01
- Potassium nitrate, also known as niter or saltpeter, has been used to preserve meat and is found in toothpaste formulated for sensitive teeth.
- The germ of the first knowledge of an explosive was probably the accidental discovery, ages ago, of the deflagrating property of the natural saltpeter _when in contact with incandescent charcoal_." [ Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
