Explore: Chilean Saltpeter

nitratite, also known as cubic niter (UK: nitre), soda niter or Chile saltpeter (UK: Chile saltpetre), is a mineral, the naturally occurring form of sodium

is also known as Chile saltpeter (large deposits of which were historically mined in Chile) to distinguish it from ordinary saltpeter, potassium nitrate

sodium salts) typically occurring in the deserts of Chile (classically known as "Chilean saltpeter" and variants of this term).[self-published source?]

refer to: Sodium nitrate (NaNO3), a compound Chile saltpeter or nitratine, the mineral form Norwegian saltpeter or calcium nitrate (Ca(NO3)2) Magnesium nitrate

1874 between Chile and Bolivia. This treaty had fixed for 25 years the tax rate on the Chilean saltpeter company, in return for Chile's relinquishing

The use of Nitratine or Chilean Saltpeter once an important source of nitrates for fertilizer and other chemical uses including gunpowder and fireworks

Central Bank of Chile in Santiago serves as the central bank for the country. The Chilean currency is the Chilean peso (CLP). Chile is one of South America's

as fertilizer, but have other important uses. Saltpeter is used to make gunpowder. Atacama is a Chilean region south of the Atacama Desert, which mostly

purified into saltpeter by adding wood ash. The process was discovered in the early 15th century and was very widely used until the Chilean mineral deposits

organized in the 1910s with the creation of the Chilean Regional Workers' Federation in 1913 and the Chilean branch of the Industrial Workers of the World