Posted by zxcvb on Saturday September 8, 2007 at 12:08 PM and tagged with catacombs, description, ... The vaults are very damp and encrusted with niter, a crystalline salt used to make gunpowder, as a fertilizer, and in medicine. They are also very large because this is where the dead bodies of family members are laid.
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When they reached Montresor's palazzo (luxurious house), they found no one at home. ... Montresor and Fortunato had now reached the "...inmost recesses of the catacombs." The niter was hanging "...like moss upon the vaults." They were "...below the river's bed. The drops of moisture trickle[d] among the bones." Montresor...
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Nitrum (nitre in English) is a mixture of hydrated sodium...found in desert regions. If the word "nitre" sounds familiar, it's because about...chemists realized that one of the elements of nitre was a colorless, odorless gas, which... ... "A draught of this Medoc will...into the inmost recesses of the catacombs. "The nitre!"
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In the beginning, these peculiar men meet in a jovial atmosphere during carnival season and later retreat to the dank and eerie vaults of the catacombs. Poe creates a creepy and suspenseful mood the deeper Fortunato and ... The human skeletons and damp, potent niter along the dreary walls resonate a gloomy effect.
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Niter is commonly found, usually in small amounts, as a surface efflorescence in arid regions ... In literature, Edgar Allan Poe invokes the use of nitre in the short story "The Cask of Amontillado" (1846), in which the main character, Montresor, describes the mineral deposits lining the walls of the underground catacombs,
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Niter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Niter (US) or nitre (UK) is the mineral form of potassium nitrate, KNO 3 , also known as saltpeter (US) or saltpetre (UK). Historically, the term "nitre" – cognate with "natrium", a Latin wor...
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Scattered over the earth at the present time various stages of civilization are to be found, from the primitive savages to the most highly cultivated peoples. Although it is possible that there are tribes of lowly beings on earth to-day unfamiliar with fire or ignorant of its uses, savages are generally able to make fire.
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Montressor and Fortunato walking through the catacombs, ... They descend and wander down, down, down- your attention is drawn to the dampness, the darkness, the “niter” on the walls (an interesting feature- niter, Potassium nitrate, wasn’t discovered until 40 years after Poe’s death, so he is probably...
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In the summer of 1849 he revisited Richmond, lectured, and was accepted anew by the fiancée he had lost in 1826. After his return north he was found unconscious on a Baltimore street. In a brief obituary the Baltimore Clipper reported that Poe had died of "congestion of the brain."
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it is found pure in nature as the mineral saltpeter, or niter. (The name saltpeter is also applied to sodium nitrate , although less frequently.) It is slightly soluble in cold water and very soluble in hot water.
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