Example sentences for: nitrate

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  • He worked instead on other terrorist schemes, such as buying four tons of ammonium nitrate for bombs to be planted on cargo planes flying to the United States.

  • To apply the intake fraction concept in our investigation, we used predictive regression models developed in a recent study [ 23 ] . This study took its intake fraction estimates from an analysis [ 22 ] that used CALPUFF (a regional-scale Lagrangian puff model) to calculate intake fractions for primary PM 2.5 , sulfate particles (from SO 2 ), and nitrate particles (from NOx), evaluating 40 power plants and 40 mobile sources distributed across the US.

  • Given state-level energy savings by fuel type, we estimate emissions of primary PM 2.5 , SO 2 (as a precursor of sulfate particles), and NOx (as a precursor of nitrate particles).

  • For the ammonium nitrate purchase, see Intelligence report, interrogation of detainee, Apr.

  • Potassium chloride (KCl), on the other hand, can be made to react with Chile saltpeter (see above) to produce true saltpeter: potassium nitrate (KNO3), an essential ingredient of gunpowder, whose other two components are sulfur and carbon; the three can be combined to explosive effect in as simple proportions by weight as 1, 2, and 3 respectively.


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