For instance, herds of mules are taken from Abrapampa, on the line of the Quiaca, to the saltpetre mines of Antofagasta, whereas every effort to convey cattle by this route has failed.
The saltpetre works buy also draught-mules for their waggons.
The saltpetre works make yearly contracts in advance with the Rosario dealers, fixing the number and price of the beasts to be delivered at Calama.
On the plain, to the east of Mendoza, at San Martin and Junin, the harvest is larger, but the wine is rough, and one can often taste the saltpetre of the clayey soil.
Through this earth water is filtered, and being afterwards suffered to evaporate the saltpetre is found at the bottom of the vessel.
Mr. Grey proceeded to lay the first tier on his saltpetre floor, and then built the chests, tier upon tier, beginning at the sides, and leaving in the middle a lane somewhat narrower than a tea chest.
When the saltpetre was well mashed, they rolled ton waterbutts on it, till the floor was like a billiard table.
If it be an object to prepare a store of tinder, a strong solution of saltpetre in water should be obtained, and the paper, or rags, or fungus, dipped into it and hung to dry.
This solution may be made by pouring a little water on a charge of gunpowder, or on the ashes above-mentioned, which will dissolve the saltpetre out of them.
Dissolve the saltpetre that you wish to purify, in an equal measure of boiling water; a cupful of one to a cupful of the other.
Saltpetre exists in the ashes of many plants, of which tobacco is one; it is also found copiously on the ground in many places, in saltpans, or simply as an effloresence.
It is better, therefore, to use equal weights of saltpetre and water in making the boiling-hot solution.
It was distilled from saltpetreso long ago as the 13th century, by igniting that salt, mixed with copperas or clay, in a retort.
Saltpetre appears as an efflorescence upon the ground and walls in many situations.
An Account of the quantities of Saltpetreand Cubic Nitre imported into, exported from, and retained for consumption in the United Kingdom.
The chrome yellow is to be added till little of the saltpetre remains undecomposed, care being taken not to overheat the crucible, lest the colour of the mixture should become brown.
This opinion may certainly be maintained: for in India, Spain, and several other countries, at a distance from all habitations, immense quantities of saltpetre are reproduced in soils which have been washed the year before.
Saltpetre or sea-salt are requisite to improve the lustre and fastness of the dye given by this group to silk.
Culinary salt is generally had recourse to, either alone or with the addition of saltpetre or sugar.
David's face got as red as though it had been rubbed with red pepper and saltpetre both.
He stood with his back to these beside the meat bench, scraping the saltpetreoff a large middling and rubbing it with red pepper.
When the saltpetre was well mashed, they rolled ton water-butts on it, till the floor was like a billiard table.
It was a sad scene: the deck was now dry, and the dead bodies lay quiet around them with glassy eyes; and, grotesquely horrible, the long hair of two or three was stiff and crystallised with the saltpetre in the ship.
I also moved him to give orders for the saltpetre and other affairs that had been before agreed upon, which he referred me to be settled by the two alcaydes.
That same night I presented him with a case of combs[302], and requested his majesty to give orders for the lading of the ships back again, as I found there was very little saltpetre in the hands of John Bampton.
The skin side of the pork is rubbed over with a mixture of fifty parts by weight of salt, and one part of saltpetre in powder, and the incised parts of the ham or flitch, and the inside of the flitch covered with the same.
Mix sugar, salt, and saltpetre together in the above proportion, rub the hams well with these, and put them into a vessel large enough to hold them, always keeping the salt over them.
Again; saltpetrebeing indispensable in making sulphuric acid, the commercial value of that salt had formerly an important influence upon its price.
Dip the wicks in lime-water and saltpetreon making.
We see no reason why it should not have been just the other way, salt in prisms and saltpetre in cubes, or why either should take an exact geometrical outline, any more than coagulating albumen.
Iodine was discovered by a saltpetre manufacturer, but applied by a physician in place of the old remedy, burnt sponge, which seems to owe its efficacy to it.
What is it that makes common salt crystallize in the form of cubes, and saltpetre in the shape of six-sided prisms?
Put together two ounces sulphuric acid, an ounce and a half nitric acid, one dram saltpetre and two ounces rain water.
The fizz of saltpetre disturbed the rat, and he hoisted his tail and skipped back to his home.
Already, for an hour and a half before the arrival of the procession, the saltpetre of the female crowd had been crystallized on the walls and the windows.
Salt a piece of the brisket, a thin part of the flank, or the tops of the ribs, with salt and saltpetre five days.
In three days wipe it, and salt it with common salt and saltpetre beaten fine: rub these well in, and turn it every day for a fortnight.
To correct the offensive taste which this produces, boil two ounces of saltpetre in a quart of water, and put two or more spoonfuls of it into a pail before milking, according to the quantity of milk.
Prepare a tongue with saltpetre and common salt for a week, and turn it every day.
Rub the ham with half a pound of coarse sugar, let it lie twelve hours, then rub it with an ounce of saltpetre pounded, and a pound of common salt.
If much frozen, allow a quarter of an ounce of saltpetre to every peck of potatoes, and dissolve it in the water.
Take salt and bay salt one pound each, saltpetre and lump sugar two ounces each, and powder and mix the whole together.
Then drain it, salt it again with common salt and saltpetre for three days, and afterwards lay the whole in a small quantity of water for two days.
Take of best common salt two parts, saltpetre one part, lump sugar one part, and beat them up together in a mortar, so that they may be completely blended.
If it be wished to make them look red, throw a little saltpetre over them the night before.
Mix an ounce of saltpetre with a quarter of a pound of bay salt, the same quantity of common salt, and also of coarse sugar, and a quart of strong beer.
I looked at the white teeth of the murderer, white as the saltpetre which makes winter in the desert.
All round the desert rose in humps of sand, melting into stony ground where the saltpetre lay like snow on a wintry world.
Here and there, between their strange, suggestive shapes, under the dark sky one could see the ghastly whiteness of the saltpetre in the arid plains beyond, where the low bushes bent in the chilly breeze.
He came back from Algiers with the sickness heavy upon him, caught in the saltpetre marshes that stretch between Biskra and Touggourt.
Seymour, indeed, though his saltpetre contract was the talk of the whole town, came forward with unabashed forehead to plead for his accomplice; but his effrontery only injured the cause which he defended.
His saltpetre contract had left a deep stain on his personal honour.
The importation of Indian spices, indeed, was admitted to be harmless, and the importation of Indian saltpetre to be necessary.
It was calculated that all Europe would hardly produce in a year saltpetre enough for the siege of one town fortified on the principles of Vauban.
The demand that saltpetre should be furnished to the Crown for a fixed sum Child met by those arguments, familiar to our generation, which prove that prices should be left to settle themselves.
Two of these are known only as The Saltpetre Caves, and the third as The Bat Cave.
In some parts of the Wady which appear to hold water in rainy seasons, there is much saltpetre on the surface, and there the vegetation is rank, but of little value as pasture.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saltpetre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
