Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Ikeon

In the U.S., you could purchase saltpeter over the counter, at any pharmacy. Don’t know if that is still the case. Have not made gun powder since I was a teen.


123 posted on 07/08/2022 7:17:49 AM PDT by JME_FAN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 102 | View Replies ]


To: JME_FAN

If you have patience and somewhere to hide the smell you.can use human urine or animal urine to make a niter bed let it ferment with natural airborne bacteria for 6 months then wash that bed with woodash water. The effluent will crystallize as it evaporates in a tray, those crystals will be nearly pure potassium nitrate. This is how it was made for thousands of years before commercial sized deposits were found in the Chilean desert and later modern chemical synthesis. It’s not ha rd people in BC times did it.


151 posted on 07/08/2022 8:49:58 AM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 123 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson