Potassium nitrate (KNO 3), known historically as saltpeter or the mineral niter, is a common salt with multiple uses. It has been known since antiquity; an early appearance in the chemical literature ...

SQM will increase its potassium nitrate capacity by 50% to 1.5 million metric tons per year by mid-2018. The Chilean firm says it will build a 300,000-metric-ton-per-year plant in Pedro de Valdivia, ...

You now might use saltpeter if you want an old stump in your yard to decompose faster, but for a millennium it was the cause of wars, massacres, and great grassroots scientific efforts. It changed the ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global potassium nitrate market report until 2021. This research report also lists five other prominent ...

Sometime between 600 and 900 CE, two Chinese scientists mistakenly mixed potassium nitrate with sulfur and charcoal, creating a crude gunpowder. Legend has it that they were searching for an ...

BATAC, Ilocos Norte – Fruit experts warn that the continued spraying of mango trees with overdoes rates of potassium nitrate to force them to flower may lead to the collapse of the Philippine mango ...