Great Stuff, sweet spirits of niter, corrosive sublimate hell yea!! They had some crazy names for chemicals back in the day.
When I was around 12 years old I was big into chemistry, back then they had cool chemistry sets (we were not stupid fucks like the kids now)
If it did not come from somebody's mom you did not eat it.
I lived in NYC and around the corner was a hobby store that sold all kinds of chemicals in small one or two ounce jars for chemistry sets, they had everything.