Saltpetre in a sentence as a noun

You can easily but saltpetre and sulfur in a pharmacy then go to a hardware store to get charcoal.

The tobacco in ready mades is sprayed with saltpetre among other things.

> was it literally 100% for money or did want of these goods play a role: > cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, spices, saltpetre, tea, and opium.

Urine was historically used to produce saltpetre, one of the ingredients of gunpowder

"Government officials had the power to scrape up dried urine from beneath the boarded floors of Stuart stables because it contained saltpetre, a vital ingredient of gunpowder.

Saltpetre definitions

noun

(KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive

See also: saltpeter niter nitre