Voorbeelden van saltpeter

• 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.