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Bookmark or Share- How To Make All Natural Saltpeter Potassium Nitrate - Survival ManualSaltpeter is the common name for potassium nitrate (KNO3). Using urine is an old school method for manufacturing saltpeter. To make saltpeter from urine you need only a couple of ingredients, urine and organic matter. For organic matter you can use straw with straw being nothing more than cut grass. However, as you can guess it isn't as simple ...
- Saltpetre | Definition, Uses, & Facts | Britannicasaltpetre, any of three naturally occurring nitrates, distinguished as (1) ordinary saltpetre, or potassium nitrate, KNO 3; (2) Chile saltpetre, cubic nitre, or sodium nitrate, NaNO 3; and (3) lime saltpetre, wall saltpetre, or calcium nitrate, Ca (NO 3) 2. These three nitrates generally occur as efflorescences caused by the oxidation of ...
- What is saltpeter used for and is it true it reduces certain “carnal ...The second part of the question is easy to answer. “Saltpetre,” (the term refers either to potassium or sodium nitrate) has no effect on carnal urges. The story that this chemical was put into soldiers’ food to decrease their sex drive is a total myth. Now on to the more serious aspects of saltpeter. One of the most deadly substances known to mankind is produced by Clostridium botulinum ...
- Potassium nitrate | Definition, Formula, Uses, & Factspotassium nitrate (KNO3), an ionic white crystalline salt made up of potassium ions and nitrate ions. Uses of potassium nitrate include the manufacture of fertilizers, pesticides, glass, fireworks, explosives, and rocket fuels. It is also used as a food preservative, and when added to meat it causes a reaction between the myoglobin and ...
- Saltpeter Mining - New Georgia EncyclopediaSaltpeter Mining. When mixed in proper proportions with sulfur and charcoal, saltpeter—or potassium nitrate—forms gunpowder. The ability of early colonists to procure their own supplies of this essential substance enabled them to successfully fight the Revolutionary War (1775-83) despite blockades by England. As did the Confederates during ...
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