Salpeter

Salpeter, Salpetre or Saltpeter most commonly refers to Nitre, KNO₃.

It may also refer to:

• 11757 Salpeter a minor planet found in 1960 by a team from Palomar Observatory
• Nitratine (Chile saltpeter), the mineral form of sodium nitrate, NaNO₃

People with the last name Salpeter

• Edwin Ernest Salpeter (1924–2008), U.S. astronomer
  • Bethe–Salpeter equation describes two-particle quantum field binding, derived by Hans Bethe and Edwin Salpeter
  • Salpeter process a process of nuclear fusion mathematically defined by Edwin Salpeter
• Greta Salpeter (born 1988), U.S. musician

See also

• Saltpeter (disambiguation)
• Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, a teaching hospital in Paris, France
• Saltpetre Republic, a term used in Chilean historigraphy for the 1879-1914 period