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Перевод: saltpetre

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Тезаурус:

1. Saltpetre was imported from India and sulphur from Italy, and brought to the Lake District gunpowder works by water from Liverpool to Milnthorpe.
2. The most common seasoning Saltpetre p50/ A preserving salt, used mainly to preserve the pink colouring in cooked meats Sambal p54/ Hot relishes used in Eastern cookery Saucissons p9/ The French name for air-dried sausages.
3. Er sulphur, charcoal and saltpetre which is
4. It imported saltpetre from Sicily, used local charcoal and exported its produce over the bumpy roads to Maidstone, a rather hair-raising journey.
5. It had a big crew and a full commercial load - wax and mastic and wormwood seed, six bales of carpets and eighty baskets of sulphur, fifty bundles of silk and five hundred oxhides, two hundred barrels of saltpetre and a hundred bales of Syrian soda.
6. The flitches - that's the hams - were laid down in salt and saltpetre to cure, then hung up on hooks.
7. The meat used for Danish salami is pre-salted (saltpetre is included) which explains its very vivid pink colouring and its salty flavour.
8. But enough saltpetre and sulphur to keep those guns firing for ever.,
9. Still Seton waited, calculating distance, gunners impatient at their dozen cannon, touch-ropes steeped in saltpetre smoking, fizzing, ready.
10. When it is discovered that the combination of certain proportions of charcoal, sulphur and saltpetre produces disagreeable results, then there is no reason why the benefits of gunpowder should be restricted to China.
11. Saltpetre, or potassium nitrate, is a preserving salt usually available only at a chemist's or pharmacy and is most commonly used to preserve the pink colour of pickled or salt beef.
12. How does any society protect itself against this kind of comprehensive assault, which does not even need the charcoal, sulphur and saltpetre to make the gunpowder but can find the materials for the application of its marvellous discovery anywhere in the world and in any circumstances?
13. Nitrate of potash, saltpetre and bonfire ash supply both potash and nitrogen, and a lot of it, which, when released very quickly by reaction with other chemicals and ignition, provides an explosion like gun powder.