They stock small jars in my local chemists. You can also buy larger bags at relatively low cost off eBay, where it is sold for use in fishponds.
It's one of the ingredients in Black Powder (old fashioned gunpowder)
Isn't that potassium nitrate?
its not potassium nitrate, as thats not that potent really, its used for salting foods, air cured pork joints etc etc...
And starting to get a bad rep for that as well (cancer causing and all that)
And starting to get a bad rep for that as well (cancer causing and all that)
True, but when making sausages or bacon I'll take the cancer risk over the botulism risk.....
true, but when making sausages or bacon i'll take the cancer risk over the botulism risk.....
That's where mine is coming from
@PaganBushcraft - do you ever check your sources?
I worked in a pharmacy for just over a year last year and everything I have said is what I was told to me by the chemist thay had small jars of potassium behind the couter that thay had taken off the shelfs and the chemist would not sell them to me and I worked for them. As thay had been told by head office. That I have told you. Not to be sold to the general public. I delivered Presciption meds to peoples homes for them so I had to have a very indepth cheque made in to my background and thay still would not let me buy some. Even after I told them it was for bushcraft use only. Thay got very funny about it and I was told to drop the subject.
Yup, it's nitrate, not permanganate.
Pagan, the government isn't interested in preventing bombs "when the economy collapses", it's interested in current real live terrorists making bombs. Like, you know, the ones that went off on July 7th. But lets not start talking politics.
I worked in a pharmacy for just over a year last year and everything I have said is what I was told to me by the chemist and she got it from head office
Fertiliser thing, Ammonium nitrate (NH4)(NO3) (made from ammonia and nitric acid)
Purple thing, potassium permanganate (KMnO4)
Gun powder thing, potassium nitrate (saltpetre) KNO3
Trying to keep the topic on topic.