Object/Work Type
Exhibition Kiosks

Title Text
Sodium Nitrate Kiosk

Creation Date
1910-1911

Descriptive Note Text

Sodium nitrate is an alkali metal nitrate salt that is commonly known as Chile saltpeter because large deposits of sodium nitrate were historically mined almost exclusively from the Atacama desert in northern Chile.  At the turn of the 20th century, German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch developed a process for producing ammonia from the atmosphere on an industrial scale. With the onset of World War I, Germany began converting ammonia from this process into a synthetic Chilean saltpeter, which was as practical as the natural compound in production of gunpowder and other munitions. 

Code in the 1911 Map
SIM a 106