0 a salty-tasting white powder used to preserve meat, and also used in producing explosives and fertilizers (= substances that help plants grow)
Instead, the ingredients were stramonium, belladonna and potassium nitrate (saltpeter).
But pouring saltpeter from the minarets hasn't worked.
He had also something to do with the saltpeter transactions.
The expenditures were directed toward the financing of the dockyard and the maintenance of the armories (bayt al-amana), the refining of saltpeter, and the manufacture of arms and ammunition.
They discovered by the 10th century that saltpeter, which is a salt of nitrogen, niter, when mixed with sulfur, water, and air would combust on being heated.
Then to preserve from the ravages of insects scatter on it some powdered alum and a little saltpeter.
To dream of saltpeter, denotes change in your living will add loss to some unconquerable grief.
This brine is rich in animal matter extracted from the meat, and usually also in saltpeter, which has been used in pickling.
