Lime saltpeter

Synonyms lime nitrate lime saltpeter Norwegian saltpeter, nitrocalcite... 

Calcium nitrate 2223 Ca(N03)2 Lime saltpeter nitrate of lime. 

LIME SALTPETER(10124-37-5) A strong oxidizer. Violent reaction with reducing materials. Forms shock-sensitive mixtures with organic contaminants. Incompatible with combustible materials (wood, cloth, oil, grease, etc.), organics, and other easily oxidizable materials, chemically active metals, aluminum nitrate, ammonium nitrate, cyanides, esters, phosphorus, sodium hypophosphate, thyocyanates. Corrosive to many substances, including aluminum. 

Synonyms cas 10124-37-5 lime saltpeter nitrocalcite Calcium Oxide... 

Synonyms Calcium dinitrate Calcium saltpeter Lime nitrate Lime saltpeter Nitric acid, calcium salt... 

Lime pyrolignite. See Calcium acetate Lime saltpeter. See Calcium nitrate Lime, slaked. See Calcium hydroxide Limestone. See Calcium carbonate Lime sulfur. See Calcium polysulfide Lime-tree extract. See Linden (Tilia americana) extract Linden (Tilia cordata) extract Linden (Tilia vulgaris) extract Lime water. See Calcium hydroxide Limnanthes alba. See Meadowfoam (Limnanthes alba) seed oil (-)-Limonene. See l-Limonene (+)-Limonene. See d-Limonene d-Limonene... 

In 1717 Louis Lemery stated that saltpeter was usually obtained from tile earth and refuse piles near old lime-plastered walls and in stables and churchyards. To explain its origin, John Mayow postulated the existence of a hypothetical saltpeter m the atmosphere. When Mariotte exposed to the air of an upper room some saltpeter earth (earth from which all the saltpeter had previously been leached out), however, he was unable to prepare even a gram of saltpeter. When he placed the same earth in the cellar, it soon became covered with salt-petei. Lemery placed three earthen vessels containing respectively lime, potassium carbonate, and leached saltpeter earth on pedestals, and exposed them to the moist air of a dark cellar whose walls and floor were covered widi saltpeter. Even after two years, however, he found not a trace of saltpeter in any of the three vessels. By frequently moistening the contents with animal substances, however, he soon prepared a considerable quantity of it (42). 

In order to produce the various glasses, soda ash, salt cake, and limestone or lime are required to flux the silica. In addition, there is a contribution of lead oxide, pearl (as potassium carbonate), saltpeter, borax, boric acid, arsenic trioxide, feldspar, and fluorspar, together with a great variety of metallic oxides, carbonates, and the other salts required for colored glass. 

In ad 660, some thousand years later, a man named Kalinkos, who was either a Greek architect or a Syrian alchemist, invented Greek fire. The actual formula is lost, but it probably consisted of resin, pitch, sulfur, naphtha, lime, and saltpeter. Greek fire was an excellent naval weapon because it would float on water and set fire to the wooden ships of the era.3... 

Many familiar substances have common, unsystematic names. For each of the following, give the correct systematic name (a) saltpeter, KNO3 (b) soda ash, Na2C03 (c) lime, CaO ... 

RT-Drucksache No. 47 from 8 Mar 1915,13. Legislaturperiode, II. Session 1914/ 15. The monopoly extended to a) inorganic nitrogenous minerals, above all Chile saltpeter b) synthetic nitrogen compounds like nitric acid, nitrous acid, ammonium gas, and cyanamide and c) nitrogenous fertilizers like sodium, lime, ammonium nitrate, ammonium sulfate, and urea. 

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