potassium nitrate in English

noun
1
a white crystalline salt, occurring naturally and produced synthetically, used in fertilizer, as a meat preservative, and as a constituent of gunpowder.
Fertilizers containing high amounts of nitrate of soda, muriate of potash, potassium nitrate and ammonium nitrate can cause the highest accumulated salts.

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1. Only a very few fertilizers contain potassium nitrate.

2. For example: mixtures of ammonium phosphate and potassium nitrate.

3. It had three chemicals we were really surprised to see: sulfur, potassium nitrate and charcoal.

4. It consists of a mixture of sulfur (S), charcoal (C), and potassium nitrate (saltpeter, KNO3).

5. The chloride - free potash fertilizer include potassium sulphate, potassium nitrate, potassium dihydrogen phosphate and so on.

6. Proportions by weight are 75% potassium nitrate (known as saltpeter or saltpetre), 15% softwood charcoal, and 10% sulfur.

7. This standard solution is prepared from titrated solutions of potassium nitrate (4.3), ammonium sulphate (4.4) and urea (4.5).

8. This salt was the obtaining residue after distilling nitric acid from a mixture of potassium nitrate and arsenic trioxide.

9. On the contrary a negatively charged sol develops considerable amount of acid, when coagulated by potassium nitrate and barium nitrate.

10. Speaking of Bat droppings, also known as guano, they are high in potassium nitrate (saltpeter) and are often used as fertilizer

11. The Cannonballs and other artillery shells of this period were filled with a mixture of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, commonly known as black powder

12. Newer designs using liquid sodium have been demonstrated, and systems using molten salts (40% potassium nitrate, 60% sodium nitrate) as the working fluids are now in operation.

13. « Back Main Next » Print Bobbinite COMPOSITION #2 SOURCE: Urbanski PREPARATION (parts by weight) : CHEMICAL PERCENT/PARTS AMOUNT Potassium nitrate 0.660 Charcoal 0.220 Sulfur 0.030 Starch 0.090 Total

14. No.1 Bobbinite No.2 Bobbinite No.1 black blasting powder American blasting powder No.3 black blasting powder (Petroclastite or Haloclastite) No.2 black blasting powder Potassium nitrate 75

15. Winthrop often treated kids with his top secret cure-all "rubila, " later revealed by Oliver Wendell Holmes to be a mix of antimony and saltpeter, a precursor to the explosive potassium nitrate.

16. These are of the black powder type, e.g., Bobbinite, a typical black powder explosive con sisting of potassium nitrate 63.5%, charcoal 19.5%, starch 3%, sulphur 2%, paraffin wax 8% and moisture 3%

17. Ammonia water, urea and ammonium nitrate solution (UAN), sodium nitrate (sodium nitric acid), potassium nitrate, ammonium salts, natrium nitrite technical and reactive – for food, nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide, oxygen, POD oil (oxidation and dehydration product, X-oils)