#nitrate

• Amatol — A military explosive material composed of a homogeneous mixture of trinitrotoluene (TNT) and ammonium nitrate, widely used during World War I and World War II for filling artillery shells, aerial bombs, and naval mines.
• Ammonal — An industrial and military explosive substance composed of a homogeneous mixture of ammonium nitrate, aluminum powder, and trinitrotoluene (TNT) or charcoal. The aluminum functions as a powerful thermal agent that considerably increases the temperature and blast of the explosion, making amonal ideal for large-scale mining operations or for charging heavy projectiles.
• Lunar caustic variant — An archaic or unofficial pharmaceutical designation historically used in the Romanian Principalities to denote an antiseptic substance, a colloidal silver preparation, or vitriolated silver (silver nitrate), used in apothecaries' recipes for treating wounds, cauterizing infected tissues, or as a rudimentary ocular disinfectant. In a structural linguistic sense, the term represents a transitional form borrowed through Balkan or Levantine channels before the standardization of modern chemical nomenclature.
• Nitrate — A salt or ester of nitric acid containing the NO3 functional group; in common and agricultural language (often called nitrate), it refers to chemical fertilizers used for enriching the soil with nitrogen, whose excessive use can lead to the pollution of groundwater.