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A lack of rainfall helped preserve beds of sodium nitrate, or saltpeter ... While the average temperature is in the high 60s Fahrenheit, it can drop to close to freezing at night in the winter.

"This saltpetre does not properly deserve to be so called; for it consists of nitrate of soda, and not of potash ... While the average temperature is in the high 60s Fahrenheit, it can drop to close ...

of crude nitrate of soda, 40 lbs. of silicious sand ... The proportion of slag to the yield of crude steel was not ascertained by direct experiment, but, calculating from the materials employed ...

This precaution is not necessary, unless the alloy contains a metal requiring a high temperature for its ... a great natural deposit of nitrate of soda has been discovered, extending sixty miles ...

Over the objections of Iowa state officials, federal regulators will require plans to confront heavy nitrate concentrations ...

New Delhi: High nitrate levels have been found in groundwater of 440 districts across India, with 20 per cent of the samples collected exceeding the permissible nitrate concentration, the Central ...

High nitrate levels have been found in groundwater of 440 districts across India, with 20 per cent of the samples collected exceeding the permissible nitrate concentration, the Central Ground Water ...

Rajasthan, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu had over 40 per cent of samples above the limit while there was high contamination in samples from -- Maharashtra at 35.74 per cent, Telangana at 27.48 per ...