Ingredient Likelihood

Uses/Characteristics

Potassium Fairly Unlikely

Chloride

Commonly used as a medicine

Sulfur Fairly Unlikely

used in gunpowder, fungicide, and insecticide

can be used to treat certain kinds of skin cancer

Can increase your risk of developing cancer

Is used in foods as preservatives and to keep bacteria from growing on
food
Can cause the Blue Baby syndrome
Needed in plant growth
Has a large effect on seed production and formation, chlorophyll
formation, and enzyme activity.
Used to treat a deficiency in iron

Synthetic Nitrates

Fairly Unlikely

Copper Very Unlikely

Ferrous Sulfate

Very Unlikely

Calcium Fairly Unlikely

Magnesium
Carbonate

a medication to treat acid indigestion, heartburn, and sour stomach

Calcium Fairly Likely

Carbonate

Can be obtained when from mining

Make up the shells of sea life (eg. plankton)
Also makes up marble, chalk, and limestone.
Is involved when lime kilns are used to produce quicklime. Lime kilns are
a carbon emitter
Used to help alleviate the effects of acid rain but cannot eliminate
methane.
When limestone decomposes to form calcium oxide, calcium dioxide is
placed with sulfur dioxide which reacts with burning coal to form calcium
oxide.

Calcium Sulfate

Ammonium Nitrate

Fairly Likely

Likely

not flammable but can make other substances combust

Ammonium Likely
Phosphate
Superphosphate Fairly Unlikely
(Monocalcium
Phosphate)

Potassium Sulfate

Fairly Unlikely

chemically very unstable due to its salts

used in baking and is of high purity

Provides potassium and sulfur to the soil

Non-flammable
Soluble in water.