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Salpetra and Salpetri are almost unique, Salpetro is specific to Leonforte (EN), Salpietra, almost unique, is Sicilian, Salpietro is typical of the Messina and Catania. Integrations provided by Stefano Ferrazzi Salpetra, once existed in Sicily, seems now disappeared from our country, Salpetri, unique, is found only in Asti, Salpietra, very rare, could be originating in Ribera (AG), all these surnames derive from Term Salpetra, variant of the most common saltpetre, a chemical substance that, in the past, was used for various purposes: good quality fertilizer, utilized in fertilizing farmland, saltpeter also served as food preservative (mainly for the preservation of salami and salted meats) and, last but not least, as explosive (it must be recalled, in fact, that saltpetre is a fundamental component of piric powder and once it was used to prepare this substance Inside of Salnitrare or artificial nitrerie, of great strategic importance considering the fact that the gunpowder was for a long time the only explosive available). In conclusion, these surnames derive from or from names of trade attributed to the ancestor (probably of the Salnitrari, that is to say to the processing of saltpetre, or perhaps of the owners of Nitrerie) or from living the founder themselves at a deposit of Salpetra.
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