It also occurs with alunite, aragonite, collophane, crandallite, francoanellite, gypsum, huntite, hydromagnesite, leucophosphite, nesquehonite, niter, and nitrocalcite in the Paddy s River copper mine in the Brindabella Mountains of Australia.
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More problematic was the lack of niter for use in gunpowder, as natural sources could only produce minuscule amounts, and after the destruction of the Washington Arsenal, the Union had only enough for another years worth of fighting.
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NITER has several number of huge buildings like Administrator Building, Academic Building, Quality Control Building, two large boys hostels, one large girls hostel, teachers quarter, staff quarter, a huge principal's bungalow, playground.
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It occurs associated with thenardite, jarosite, sylvite and hematite in fumaroles; with blodite, syngenite, mirabilite, picromerite, borax and halite in evaporites; and with syngenite, whitlockite, monetite, niter and gypsum in guano deposits.
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Without enough niter for gunpowder to last in a prolonged exchange through the vastness of Canada, the American war council decided on a knock-out blow by capturing Halifax, the sole large Canadian Atlantic port and lifeline of British supplies.
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Niter was used to refer specifically to nitrated salts known as various types of saltpeter ( only nitrated salts were good for making gunpowder ) by the time niter and its derivative nitric acid were first used to name the element nitrogen, in 1790.
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Niter was used to refer specifically to nitrated salts known as various types of saltpeter ( only nitrated salts were good for making gunpowder ) by the time niter and its derivative nitric acid were first used to name the element nitrogen, in 1790.
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A term ( ?????????, aphronitron or Aphronitre ) which translates as " foam of niter " was a regular purchase in a fourth-century AD series of financial accounts, and since it was expressed as being " for the baths " was probably used as soap.
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:: This page describes how to obtain niter from urine; it could be obtained directly from the walls of stables, or by filtering urine through straw ( and presumably letting it dry ) .-- talk ) 13 : 08, 13 July 2011 ( UTC)
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It's a little confusing because both saltpeter / saltpetre and niter / nitre have multiple meanings . ( I wonder if there's a 16th century version of the Anarchist's Cookbook anywhere ? )-- talk ) 13 : 04, 13 July 2011 ( UTC)
