What is the effect of sodium nitrate in the synthesis of graphene by the method of Hummers?

Can potassium nitrate be used? Graphite oxide powders were prepared from it by a modification of Hummers and Offeman’s method. Hummers, W. S.; Offeman, R. E. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1958, 80, 1339.

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