Rule 1
Nitrates (NO3-) and acetates (CH3COO-) are generally soluble in water regardless of the cation they are paired with. This makes compounds containing these ions highly water-soluble.
Nitrates, Acetates, Group 1, Sulfates, Ammonium, Group 17
Only some salts are chlorides; but salts are also nitrates, chlorates, acetates, benzoates, phosphates, sulfates etc.
Examples: chlorides, nitrates, phosphates, chlorates, bromides, iodides etc.
Examples: nitrates, chlorides, acetates, sulfates, formiates, uranates, iodides etc.
They take it with them in some form or another. Fireworks use oxidizing salts such as various nitrates and chlorates. Solid fuel rockets generally use ammonium perchlorate as an oxidizer while liquid fuel rockets carry liquid oxygen.
The ammonium (NH4+) ion does not contain nitrates or nitrites, which are entirely different ions, the the formulas NO3- and NO2- respectively. However, Ammonium nitrate, NH4NO3 is a fairly common substance. There is also a such thing as ammonium nitrite NH4NO2
Ammonium compound breaks down into nitrites, and back to nitrates
The chemical that contains nitrates in fertilizers is ammonium nitrate.
Examples: calcium and ammonium phosphates, calcium sulfate, potassium chloride, calcium and ammonium nitrates etc.
Any material that is unstable, and can drop to a lower energy level. There are far too many to list here, but they include many nitrates and chlorates.
Salts are products of reactions between acids and bases. Examples: nitrates, chlorides, sulfates, acetates, iodides, formiates etc.