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Sodium Nitrite: Chile Saltpetre Melted with Lead
Sodium nitrite cures meat and makes the diazo compounds behind azo dyes. One way to make it: melt sodium nitrate and stir lead into it. The lead takes oxygen from the nitrate and becomes litharge, leaving nitrite. A few grams of nitrite can kill, and lead is a poison too: label everything and keep it away from food.
The picture: sodium nitrite crystals in a jar.
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