How To Use Saltpetre In A Sentence
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Other important products of the earth are saltpetre, which is found in the Elburz, and in Azerbijan; sulphur, which abounds in the same regions, and likewise on the high plateau; alum, which is quarried near
The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
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For mammals I recommend my formula of burnt alum and saltpetre (No. 9), followed by a wash of benzoline or turpentine twice a year, or by any one of the mercurial preparations given.
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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We're using a Wiltshire wet cure, consisting of beer, salt, black treacle, black peppercorns, juniper berries and saltpetre (according to HFW's recipe).
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And I wonder much at a rabble of foolish philosophers and physicians, who spend their time in disputing whence the heat of the said waters cometh, whether it be by reason of borax, or sulphur, or alum, or saltpetre, that is within the mine.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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However, the use of this explosive mixture of saltpetre, charcoal, and sulphur as a propellant for bullets from firearms, and thus gun powder, is a western development and one which took place gradually from the 13th century.
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'No saltpetre ," I said to break the tension and we all chuckled and he went out.
SNOWJOB
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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.
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The whole of the Loehf, or limits of the Ledja, is productive of saltpetre, which is sold at Damascus and Acre; I saw it sold near the lake of Tiberias for double the price which it costs in the Loehf.
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
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Glauber created a mixture of saltpeter, lime, phosphoric acid, nitrogen and potash which was the first completely mineral fertilizer.
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Now, since saltpetre is among the most important of these substances, particularly in those countries which possess neither large mineral coal deposits nor cheap hydro-electric power, the artificial production of ammonia and nitric acid has reached an unprecedented degree of importance.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1918 - Presentation Speech
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A short while after her death my father received a letter from the chemist at Paris, informing him that the sample of potass which he had sent to France was nothing but marine salt, and some particles of potass and saltpetre.
Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770
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They can produce ices at any season, by saltpetre, which is here abundant and procured at a small price; but strange as it may appear, considering the climate, we have regular collections of ice made in January, in most of the stations in the Upper Provinces, generally under the superintendence of an English gentleman, who condescends to be the comptroller.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society
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His word nitrum (from Latin from Greek nítron) continued on, along with nitre, as names for saltpeter (from sal petrae), i.e., potassium nitrate.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 3
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In a similar manner, if yet not so intensely, operated saltpeter and coffeine, as also urea and pilocarpine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887
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The salt most used is common salt, sodium chloride, but saltpetre (which consists of potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate) has similar effects.
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Iodates are found associated with Chili saltpetre, which is an important source of the element.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
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But then one day the government banned the sale of saltpetre, and his mother had to buy a fridge.
DESPERADOES
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In certain English dairies the same result is obtained, where the cows are fed on cabbages, by the expensive process of heating the milk to a certain temperature and then adding saltpetre.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
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Used bubble of vagina of armour saltpetre Zun to vacate in the evening piece, came in the morning the following day menstruation, classics blood is dun.
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His mother would add the saltpetre to cold water, then take a big syringe and inject the mixture into the slabs of meat in the stockroom.
DESPERADOES
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The leachate was collected and then chemically converted to true saltpeter, potassium nitrate, by mixing it with a solution of potash.
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The leachate was collected and then chemically converted to true saltpeter, potassium nitrate, by mixing it with a solution of potash.
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The rennet is prepared in nearly the same manner, except that some allspice and a little saltpetre are generally added to the brine.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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Squeeze the blood out of the hand; embalm it in a shroud and steep it in a solution of saltpetre, salt and pepper for two weeks and then dry in the sun.
A Bit of Soap
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Nitrogen also occurs in nature in the form of potassium nitrate (KNO_ {3}) -- commonly called saltpeter or niter -- as well as in sodium nitrate (NaNO_ {3}).
An Elementary Study of Chemistry
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Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames, was the dumping ground for noxious industries like tanning and brewing and dangerous trades like burning lime and making saltpeter.
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Yes, saltpeter has long rumored to be an anaphrodisiac, a substance that reduces sexual drive.
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Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames, was the dumping ground for noxious industries like tanning and brewing and dangerous trades like burning lime and making saltpeter.
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Glauber created a mixture of saltpeter, lime, phosphoric acid, nitrogen and potash which was the first completely mineral fertilizer.
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They sat in the dark: the saltpetre crackled in their cigarettes, the warm breeze from the sea brushed their foreheads.
COUP D'ETAT
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Western medicine: Saltpetre thread of placental tissue fluid, gentamicin, compound, armour wow, 50 % dextrose fluid.
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Gunpowder is a mixture of saltpetre, charcoal, and sulphur, and early gunpowder was just that: a powder.
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The Indians ran away and left their possessions, and Raleigh's dreams of mineral wealth were excited by the discovery of what he took to be a 'refiner's basket, for I found in it his quicksilver, saltpetre, and divers things for the trial of metals, and also the dust of such ore as he had refined.'
Raleigh
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Mention of this substance is made in (Proverbs 25: 20) -- "and as vinegar upon nitre" -- and in (Jeremiah 2: 26) The article denoted is not that which we now understand by the term nitre i.e. nitrate of Potassa -- "saltpetre" -- but the nitrum of the Latins and the natron or native carbonate of soda of modern chemistry.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Potassium nitrate, also known as niter or saltpeter, has been used to preserve meat and is found in toothpaste formulated for sensitive teeth.
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The noun ‘pickle’ is also applied to the mixture of salt, saltpetre, and spices used to cure meats such as ham and bacon.
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'The root of the common darnel (_lolium_) or dandelion, with saltpeter, make a very cheap and effective sheep-drench.
Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College
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Mention of this substance is made in (Proverbs 25: 20) -- "and as vinegar upon nitre" -- and in (Jeremiah 2: 26) The article denoted is not that which we now understand by the term nitre i.e. nitrate of Potassa -- "saltpetre" -- but the nitrum of the Latins and the natron or native carbonate of soda of modern chemistry.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Glauber created a mixture of saltpeter, lime, phosphoric acid, nitrogen and potash which was the first completely mineral fertilizer.
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Refining the saltpeter was the current big problem, but I was hesitant about getting Arabian alchemists in on the project.
Lord Conrads Crusade
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The American Heritage Dictionary says saltpeter is either potassium nitrate (used for curing meats) or sodium nitrate.
Ceniza (ash) or tequesquite
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Red herring are fish which have been first soaked in brine with saltpetre added, then hung up to dry before being subjected to a heavy smoking - ideally over oak, beech, and turf.
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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
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The production of tar and pitch as well as potash and saltpeter is included in the category of proto-industry.
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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).
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The salt most used is common salt, sodium chloride, but saltpetre (which consists of potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate) has similar effects.
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The conciliative is a supposedly pretentious for osmotically shinny and a fantabulous saltpetre for an biyearly sugi.
Rational Review
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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
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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
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Under normal circumstances the vast majority of this saltpetre is used for fertilizer purposes.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1918 - Presentation Speech
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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.
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The latter, commonly called cubic nitre or Chile saltpetre, is the kind occurring in Chile.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges
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But it would be easy to make some guncotton, or even ordinary powder, as we have azotic acid, saltpeter, sulphur, and coal.
The Mysterious Island
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Other substances also have been examined, such as copperas ores from various parts of the State; numerous specimens supposed to be, or contain, saltpetre, but mostly containing only Epsom or Glauber's Salt.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi, December Session of 1862, and November Session of 1863
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I find since that Dr Wilson states these rocks to be highly saliferous, and says the Arabs scrape them with knives to obtain saltpetre for making their rude gunpowder.
Byeways in Palestine
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So as not to destroy the block of stone, a deflagrating explosive, which decomposes slowly, is used, such as black powder (a mixture of ground charcoal, sulphur and saltpetre) with a shock-wave propagation rate of
2. QUARRYING
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But it would be easy to make some guncotton, or even ordinary powder, as we have azotic acid, saltpeter, sulphur, and coal.
The Mysterious Island
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Mr. Barrow, in his travels through the southern parts, of the continent of Africa, discovered native nitre, which is probably similar ta the rock saltpetre of Kentucky.
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
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Potassium nitrate, also known as niter or saltpeter, has been used to preserve meat and is found in toothpaste formulated for sensitive teeth.
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Sodium occurs abundantly as nitrate (NaNO_ {3}) in Chili saltpetre, and as silicate in various minerals, such as albite (or soda-felspar).
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
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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
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Pedras Negras de Pungo Andongo,26 consists of hides, cattle tame and wild (cefos); saltpetre washed from earth in sieves, mucocote or gum anime (copal), said by Lopes de Lima to be found in all the forests of Pungo Andongo; wax, white and yellow; oil of the dendêm (Elaïs Guineënsis) and mandobim, here called ginguba (arachis); mats, manioc-flour, and sometimes an ivory.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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The best saltpetre, an essential dement of gunpowder, came from India and he had never considered that there might be a shortage in France.
Sharpe's Havoc
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On the second day diuretics may be resorted to, such as saltpeter one-half ounce, and powdered colchicum, one-half dram, to be repeated twice daily.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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Lull called soda nitrum, and he called saltpeter sal nitri.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 3
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Cut off the roots of two tongues, take three ounces of saltpetre, a little bay-salt and common salt, rub them very well, let them lie a week or ten days to make them red, but not salt, so boil them tender as they will blanch, strow over them a few bread crumbs, set them before the fire to brown on every side.
English Housewifery
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There’s nothing ferrous about gunpowder — the nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin in modern smokeless powder have no iron, and neither does old-fashioned blackpowder, which is charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter — so I assume Indy is setting up some kind of ruse.
Indiana Jones and the Magnetic Skull « Isegoria
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Nitre, or saltpetre, is potassium nitrate, the main ingredient of gunpowder.
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