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It makes one nostalgic for the fear of LSD in the water, fluoride in the water, and saltpeter in the cafeteria food, presumably to create a docile population of human slaves with excellent teeth who keep hallucinating that they're uninterested in sex.
There is also a compound called wall saltpeter because it can leach out of the mortar between the bricks of damp walls: calcium nitrate (CaNO3).
Other common sodium compounds are NaHCO3 (sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda, mentioned above), NaCl (sodium chloride, or common table salt; chlorine is so called because in its gaseous form it is green— Greek chlor- , as in chlorophyl , which, a vulgar euphemism for manure notwithstanding, is what really makes the grass grow green), NaOH (sodium hydroxide, commonly known as caustic soda or lye) and NaNO3 (sodium nitrate, sometimes called Chile saltpeter).
Stay where you are, you lit fuse,you dull spark of saltpeter and sulfur.
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.