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Instead, they said warehouses containing the mineral fertiliser saltpetre had exploded - a claim ridiculed by Ukrainian officials.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2022

To keep it from melting, the ice was treated with potassium nitrate, otherwise known as saltpetre.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2020

In earlier centuries, bacon-makers who used saltpetre did not understand that it converts to nitrite as the meat cures.

From The Guardian • Mar. 1, 2018

When Germany was denied access to Chile’s saltpetre during the First World War, the Haber–Bosch process gave it — and the world — an alternative, which it grasped with both hands.

From Nature • Sep. 4, 2013

A match was made of cotton or hemp spun slack, and boiled in a strong solution of saltpetre or in the lees of wine.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various