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	saltpeter - Encyclopedia.com
		And nitrates in the soil mean saltpeter, and saltpeter means gunpowder.
		Saltpeter, or potassium nitrate, is one of the three...
		of three-quarters potassium nitrate ("saltpeter" or "niter"), one-eighth sulfur, and...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-X-saltpete.html (847 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Military (The Saltpeter Principle)
		It, the saltpeter, gave the eggs a greenish tint.
		This surprising downturn of events is frequently attributed to the presence of saltpeter in the chow rather than to the powerful combination of anxiety to succeed, physical exhaustion, and a radical change of lifestyle.
		Many believe saltpeter is secretly introduced into the food at colleges, boys' schools, and prisons, all places where the belief flourishes because the inmates need to explain away their lack of sexual arousal.
	www.snopes.com /military/saltpetr.htm (627 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Saltpeter Mining
		Earth from the caves was mined and carried in bags or wheelbarrows to be processed either outside or, in many instances, inside the cave.
		The most prominent was Kingston Saltpeter Cave in Bartow County.
		While none of the saltpeter works are in evidence there today, records attest to the large quantity of material processed from the cave before its destruction by the Union army.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3144 (500 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Saltpeter Mining
		Earth from the caves was mined and carried in bags or wheelbarrows to be processed either outside or, in many instances, inside the cave.
		The most prominent was Kingston Saltpeter Cave in Bartow County.
		While none of the saltpeter works are in evidence there today, records attest to the large quantity of material processed from the cave before its destruction by the Union army.
	www.newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3144 (500 words)

	Clue found to uncover mystery of gunpowder invention
		Xu Xiangdong, leader of the expedition and former president of the Beijing Ancient Building Museum, said the caves were used to manufacture saltpeter, one of the major ingredients of gunpowder.
		They speculated that the saltpeter, named "Chinese Snow" by foreigners, was probably transported from here to Europe and west Asia via the road twisting between Sichuan and Gansu provinces.
		According to historic records, ancient Chinese found that the mixture of saltpeter, sulfur and carbon was explosive, which led to the invention of gunpowder sometime before the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /200312/10/print20031210_130093.html (367 words)

	Making Gunpowder
		"Saltpeter, the chemical that produces the oxygen for the other ingredients when lit off, can he made by putting urine and manure of any kind in a big cement tank mixed with water until you have about three hundred gallons mixed up.
		Saltpeter mining was one of the first major industries of the new frontier, and one of the principle objectives of exploring new territory was to find saltpeter caves.
		A mattock was used to break up the cave dirt, and a wooden saltpeter paddle was used for digging and scraping The dirt was removed from the cave in gunny sacks and poured on top of the twig and straw in the V-vat.
	www.dangerouslaboratories.org /foxfire5.html (2199 words)

	FIREPOWER AND FERTILIZERS
		Saltpeter was the ingredient that was most difficult to obtain, and since it is the major ingredient in gunpowder best suited for military use, it was the supply of nitrate that became strategically important.
		The saltpeter supplier would send out teams of collectors who would locate promising places to dig (abandoned privies and dungheaps) by tasting the soil before digging it out and carting it off to be boiled, strained and evaporated to produce saltpeter of the required purity.
		Eventually a saltpeter industry grew up, based on artificial nitre beds, in which layers of decaying organic matter, old mortar, and earth were built up in a compost heap about a meter high, and sprinkled regularly with blood and/or urine.
	www-geology.ucdavis.edu /~cowen/~GEL115/115CH16fertilizer.html (3237 words)

	NSS Preserve - KSCP
		The Kingston Saltpeter Cave Nature Preserve, Bartow County, Georgia is composed of 40 acres of largely hardwood forest, underlain by a variety of wildflowers and mosses.
		The focal point of the Preserve is the Kingston Saltpeter Cave, and it is for the protection of this endangered natural resource that the Preserve has been established.
		The Kingston Saltpeter Cave Preserve is administered by a permanent committee of the NSS, headed by Larry Blair.
	www.caves.org /preserves/kscp/kscp.html (377 words)

	Caveman to Chemist Projects: Gunpowder
		Gunpowder was invented by Chinese alchemists of the 9th century as a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter.
		Saltpeter is mined, typically from deposits in caves, where it is leached from guano.
		As I told you in the chapter on salts, saltpeter is a mixture composed of many substances extracted with fire and water from arid and manurial soils, from that growth which exudes from new walls or from that loosened soil that is found in tombs or uninhabited caves where the rain cannot enter.
	cavemanchemistry.com /oldcave/projects/gunpowder/index.html (2330 words)

	Saltpeter
		Saltpeter is a natural mineral with many uses in commerce and in magic.
		Magically speaking, Saltpeter has a long, long, long history in hoodoo as an agent of magical protection in spritual baths and floor washes and as a shoe-sprinkle.
		{Placing a mineral such as Saltpeter in the four corners is a common method of laying a trick in an X pattern or quincunx.
	www.luckymojo.com /saltpeter.html (1016 words)

	Mammoth Cave--Reading 2
		Saltpeter is a mineral that can be obtained by leaching sediments with water (see Drawing 1), much like when water is poured over coffee grounds to make coffee.
		Mining saltpeter was an important activity on the frontier because it was a key ingredient in gunpowder, and the early settlers needed their guns to hunt game for food and to defend themselves against possible attackers.
		During the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain, much of the large quantity of saltpeter needed to fight the war was mined at Mammoth Cave.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/35mammoth/35facts2.htm (1118 words)

	How to make saltpeter
		Potassium nitrate (KNO3) also known as saltpeter and in the 1800’s as, nitrate of potassa, or saltpetr.
		Before the 1900’s people in Sweden had to pay their land taxis in saltpeter; we will be using the same method of extraction that they used.
		Important note: if you are going to use this saltpeter for nitric acid; after the water is evaporated you should mix the saltpeter in with some purified distilled water, re filter it and evaporate the water off once again to insure that there is no other alkalis in it like potassium chlorate.
	www.fryingcolors.com /saltpeter.html (758 words)

	Crystallized Sulfur & Saltpeter drops in TSS? - EQTC Forums
		We used to be able to reliably get saltpeter from bazaar at about 40-50plat a few weeks ago, and now you can't even really get it even by sitting in buyer mode at 100 plat each lately.
		153/5 = 31 plat ceiling on saltpeter and sulfur.
		79/2 = 39.5 plat ceiling on saltpeter and sulfur.
	mboards.eqtraders.com /eq/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=27630 (1758 words)

	The Straight Dope: Does saltpeter suppress male ardor?
		Saltpeter can cause relaxation of involuntary muscle fiber (for which reason it's used to treat asthma) and it's occasionally prescribed to lower body temperature in cases of fever.
		From there it's not much of a leap to think that "niter," as it was called in the old days, might cure "sexual fever," and in fact a few doctors urged it for that purpose centuries ago.
		Ever since the inmates of almost any large all-male institution, ranging from boarding schools to the army, have been convinced that the higher-ups were slipping the stuff into the mashed potatoes (or whatever) to cool the jets of the rank and file.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a3_221.html (431 words)

	SALTPETER - Definition
		{Saltpeter acid} (Chem.), nitric acid; -- sometimes so called because made from saltpeter.
		Seeing saltpeter in your dream means that you will experience a tremendous grief over an extended period of time.
		Common name for potassium nitrate; in the context of geologic deposits, it may also be used to refer to other nitrate minerals such as calcium nitrate.
	www.hyperdictionary.com /dictionary/saltpeter (208 words)

	Cronaca: Saltpeter mines found in China
		Chinese archeologists have found a large ancient saltpeter manufacturing base which they believe was used to manufacture gunpowder over 1,000 years ago.
		In two caves, the remains of workshops and storage pits were discovered, while in another cave the team found four work spaces,each covering hundreds of square meters, along with several saltpeter pits, and scattered fragments of chinaware.
		The discovery of the mines of saltpeter is of immense importance.
	www.cronaca.com /archives/001815.html (280 words)

	Bat Conservation International, Inc. - Tracking Saltpeter
		They were usually mining potassium nitrate, known as saltpeter – an essential component of gunpowders of the time.
		A prime source of saltpeter is bat guano, so the guano found in bat caves was aggressively mined.
		The Kentucky phase of the program, in what was historically the most important state for hibernating Indiana myotis, is identifying and exploring these saltpeter caves and assessing their previous use and potential for restoration for Indiana myotis.
	www.batcon.org /news2/scripts/article.asp?articleID=153&newsletterID=18 (413 words)

	Saltpeter
		Chief among these were the large saltpeter and gunpowder industries already underway in the state.
		Tennessee was ready to use all its resources to back the Southern cause, and saltpeter, being a major component of gunpowder, was quickly devoted to the cause.
		For further information on saltpeter caves and works in Tennessee see the saltpeter bibliography.
	www.mtsu.edu /~cwtech/saltpeter/Saltpeter.html (153 words)

	Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		Criterion (ii): The development of the saltpeter industry reflects the combined knowledge, skills, technology, and financial investment of a diverse community of people who were brought together from around South America, and from Europe.
		The saltpeter industry became a huge cultural exchange complex where ideas were quickly absorbed and exploited.
		Criterion (iv): The saltpeter mines in the north of Chile together became the largest producers of natural saltpeter in the world, transforming the Pampa and indirectly the agricultural lands that benefited from the fertilisers the works produced.
	whc.unesco.org /en/list/1178 (517 words)

	Clue found to uncover mystery of gunpowder invention
		Xu Xiangdong, leader of the expedition and former president of the Beijing Ancient Building Museum, said the caves were used to manufacture saltpeter, one of the major ingredients of gunpowder.
		They speculated that the saltpeter, named "Chinese Snow" by foreigners, was probably transported from here to Europe and west Asia via the road twisting between Sichuan and Gansu provinces.
		According to historic records, ancient Chinese found that the mixture of saltpeter, sulfur and carbon was explosive, which led to the invention of gunpowder sometime before the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
	english.people.com.cn /200312/10/eng20031210_130093.shtml (521 words)

	Saltpeter (Gerald L. Hurst)
		From: glhurst@onr.com (Gerald L. Hurst) Subject: Re: saltpeter Date: Nov 12 1996 Newsgroups: rec.pyrotechnics In article <3287C027.6A88@uiuc.edu>, Michael Brown says: >Gerald L. Hurst wrote: > >> I was wondering if it is really necessary to dilute your mixture to one >> liter and then evaporate it back to 250 ml.
		I suggested that perhaps the visualize of the reaction were simply creating the illusion of non-reaction or that they merely needed to grind up their rough starting materials to give a bigger surface and thereby speed up the dissolution step.
		From a standpoint of energetics, calcium nitrate is a tad better than saltpeter because of the somewhat lower formula weight per unit of oxidizer.
	yarchive.net /explosives/saltpeter.html (2834 words)

	CAVERNS OF WAR: CONFEDERATE SALTPETER CAVE OPERATIONS IN WESTERN VIRGINIA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Among Virginia's most important contributions of strategic materials to the Confederacy during the Civil War was niter (saltpeter), which then constituted about 75 per cent of gunpowder.
		Most of America's saltpeter caves are located in the Southeast because of the specific geologic, climatic, and vegetative conditions required to produce these nitrate-rich deposits.
		At least 25 Virginia saltpeter caves were active over the course of the war, and operations at a number of these are described.
	gsa.confex.com /gsa/2001SE/finalprogram/abstract_3598.htm (340 words)

	Drugs and Treatments - Saltpeter Misc - Patient Handout from RxList
		Drugs and Treatments - Saltpeter Misc - Patient Handout from RxList
		Keep a list of all your medications with you, and share the list with your doctor and pharmacist.
		RxList does not provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
	www.rxlist.com /drugs/drug-11414-Saltpeter+Misc.aspx?drugid=11414&drugname=Saltpeter+Misc (246 words)

	ATITD Wiki: Resources/Saltpeter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Saltpeter is made from camel and sheep dung in any tub.
		5 dung + 5 water = 1 saltpeter
		Thus, multiple applications of saltpeter will have increasingly smaller absolute effects on the regeneration time.
	wiki.atitd.net /tale3/Resources/Saltpeter (83 words)

	Electronic Resources
		By the King : a proclamation for preseruation of grounds for making of saltpeter, and to restore such grounds as are now destroyed, and to command assistance to be giuen to His Maiesties saltpeter- makers
		By the King : a proclamation for the maintaining and increase of the mines of saltpeter, and the true making and working of saltpeter and gunpowder, and reforming of all abuses concerning the same
		By the King, a proclamation prohibiting the exportation of saltpeter
	sunzi1.lib.hku.hk /ER/search.jsp?the_key=Saltpeter&the_field=sb&the_lang=a (720 words)

	Incense Recipes
		The Saltpeter is traditionally dissolved in water, and then the charcoal soaked in the solution.
		When this dries, the saltpeter is spread minimally throughout the charcoal powder.
		The resins are powdered roughly (or finely) and dissolved in strong spirits, the cloves are whole, and the honey is added last.
	www.dreampower.com /Incense.html (1457 words)

	Hunter Pilot 27, 'Saltpeter', For Sale (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Saltpeter is a GRP twin keel Hunter Pilot 27 motor sailer, designed by David Thomas and built by Hunter Boats Ltd in 1996.
		Her fit out was completed by her first owner and she was launched in 1997.
		A prospective buyer is strongly advised to check the particulars and where appropriate at his own expense to employ a qualified Marine Surveyor to carry out a survey and/or to have an engine trial conducted.
	www.easternyachts.com /saltpeter (196 words)

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