Miners once lived and worked in Humberstone saltpeter works. Now it's a ghost town and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Photos ...

The potassium nitrate market reflect a growing emphasis on sustainable Agriculture and innovative fertilizer solutions.

CHEMICAL processes, induced by ultraviolet light in some aqueous inorganic nitrates, are of substantial interest in the chemistry of atmospheric aerosols. Nitrates form a large fraction of the ...

A lack of rainfall helped preserve beds of sodium nitrate, or saltpeter. In the early 19th century, Europeans on the hunt for saltpeter to use in gunpowder turned their attention to the desert.

If you’re having a hard time cutting them out of your diet, consider trying to stick to items like turkey and chicken and ...

Blowing up things (and each other) is one of human beings’ favorite pastimes. In this article we list some of the most ...

Some words may be mispronounced. Drinking water in Cedar Rapids had one of its worst prolonged spikes of nitrate contamination this year amid a very wet spring and early summer that followed years ...

When Charles Darwin visited during his voyage on the HMS Beagle in 1835, he dismissed the Chilean version of saltpeter. "This saltpetre does not properly deserve to be so called; for it consists of ...

In addition, some organic and natural ways of preserving meat may contain nitrates, one of which is using celery salt or celery powder. As a result, some “nitrate-free” meats may still contain ...

In the bottom of it was introduced a mixture of 169 lbs. of crude nitrate of soda, 40 lbs. of silicious sand, and 20 lbs. of air-slaked lime; but these proportions in practice are varied considerably.