Re: What is this?
- From: "Tim Williams" <tmoranwms@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:42:52 -0600
Bet that smells great.
Well, you can try taking a sample (a few hundred grams), dissolve it in a
minimum of water, add potassium chloride, filter while hot, then cool it
down and put it in the freezer. KNO3 isn't very soluble in cold water.
Then you can dry it out and see if it burns. Soak some into a paper, dry
and ignite, drop dried salt on burning charcoal, etc.
Tim
--
Deep Fryer: a very philosophical monk.
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<POWDERBURNZ@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I found a white crystaline substance on top of some mud along the banks
> of a desert lake. The area was full of decaying vegetable matter as
> well as the guano of the local duck population. My first thought was
> potassium nitrate, but I remember reading in Shimizu that the ancients
> used to collect a calcium salt under similar circumstances and then
> convert it to saltpetre using potash. How can I determine what I have
> and what is the best way to purify it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> POWDERBURNZ
>
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