Sodium nitrate is cheaper than potassium nitrate, but it is not adapted to the manufacture of the best grades of powder, since it is somewhat deliquescent and does not give up its oxygen so readily as does potassium nitrate.
Defn: A gelatin dynamite in which the dope is composed largely of sodium nitrate.
We shall find that we have an immediate precipitate, for chloride of silver will be formed by what is called double[2] decomposition, and there will remain in solution a soluble salt known as sodium nitrate.
Such salts are found in sodium nitrate, or ammonium nitrate, as much as equal weights of either of these substances being added.
An explosive consisting of sodium nitrate, charcoal, sulphur, and petroleum.
A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.
A gelatin dynamite in which the dope is composed largely of sodium nitrate.
Assuming that the chlorate is present as potassium chlorate and the nitrate as sodium nitrate, the analysis above quoted corresponds to a mixture approximately as follows: Potassium chlorat 37.
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