potassium nitrate: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Bengal saltpetre

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White potassium nitrate crystals piled in a ceramic crucible, showing their granular texture.

Expansive salt flat with rough, white potassium nitrate deposits in the foreground and dark mountains in the background under a blue sky at Salar de Chiguana, Bolivia.

Seventeenth-century engraving showing workers tending long, raised beds of earth for saltpetre production, with a small building and barrels in the center, hills and sun in the background.

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