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of several nitrogen-containing compounds collectively referred to as saltpeter (or saltpetre outside the US). Major uses of potassium nitrate are in...

The Saltpeter Wars were three conflicts among the peasants of the County of Hauenstein, the Abbey of Saint Blaise (Sankt Blasien) and the Austrian monarchy...

Typically the saltpeter would be sent to Lexington, Kentucky to be made into gunpowder. During the War of 1812, sixty to seventy men were employed to...

Kinship of Three, a Taoist text on the subject of alchemy. At this time, saltpeter was produced in Hanzhong, but would shift to Gansu and Sichuan later on...

state secret; historians have variously speculated that it was based on saltpeter, sulfur, or quicklime, though most modern scholars agree that it was based...

hemp cord about the thickness of a pencil and dipped in a solution of saltpeter and lime water." For Teach, at least, this policy paid off. According...

distinctive round shape. Warren County was the site of several saltpeter mines. Saltpeter is the main ingredient of gunpowder and was obtained by leaching...

mine caves for saltpeter, which is used to make gunpowder. The situation became so critical that the Army paid young men to mine saltpeter rather than enlist...

Tamarugal was a woodland, but demand for firewood associated with silver and saltpeter mining in the 18th and 19th centuries resulted in widespread deforestation...

The two parts are divided by the thermoelectric power plant and a large saltpeter processing and shipping plant, with the coastal highway connecting the...

described saltpeter as "snow of China" (Arabic: ثلج الصين thalj al-ṣīn). Al-Baytar died in 1248. The earlier Arab historians called saltpeter "Chinese...

chief service hub for one of Chile's major mining areas. While silver and saltpeter mining have been historically important for Antofagasta, since the mid-19th...

reign of the red-haired Elizabeth I, and women and aristocratic men used borax, saltpeter, saffron and sulfur powder to dye their hair red, making themselves...

arranged a tour of an American powder plant. He quickly deduced that the saltpeter being used was of good enough quality; however, the American refining...

the 17th century, the saltpeter works were controlled by the Cossack army. In the 18th century, state-owned and private saltpeter vats were built, belonging...

armament workshops; the soil of cellars shall be washed in lye to extract saltpeter therefrom. Arms of the caliber shall be turned over exclusively to those...

by Confederate forces. The cave became one of the leading sources of saltpeter for the Confederate Powderworks at Augusta, Georgia. The road used to...

remains of an extinct large sloth, which he named Megalonyx, unearthed by saltpeter workers from a cave in what is now Monroe County, West Virginia. Jefferson...

magnet ends, sulfur, white arsenic [probably an error that should mean saltpeter], and other ingredients, and put a fuse to the end. Each troop has hanging...

Appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (10/25/2011) Appearance on Two and a Half Men episode "A Possum on Chemo" (01/16/2012) Appearance in Sandy Wexler (during...