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THE "Saltpetreman of England, the
"Saltpeterer of
Germany, and the "Sans-cullottes" of France
found
in the cesspits of European homes the secret
materials for manufacturing - gunpowder.
There were very few known deposits of
"Salpetre"
[or purer form - Potassium Nitrate]
which at this time [middle ages] was imported
from the East,
The process consisted of mixing earth
and animal excrement with lime and ashes.
This
compound was then exposed to dry, and
watered
with urine, allowing the saltpetre to crystallize
out.
The above gentlemen had extremely wide
powers to
enter homes to remove the salpetre sources.
The East India co. imported thousands of tons
of
salpetre from Bihar to England
[as ballast in ships] under the guise of "spices"
stored above decks
The figures speak for themselves:- from year
1700
two thousand tons annually to the Spanish
wars,
Twenty thousand tons in the Napoleonic wars
and
Three million tons in WorldWar I.
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I should be grateful to
Anyone who has data on this subject
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BACKGROUND
We are researching the significance, of SALT
[NaCl]
over the period bc1000 , up to the industrial
revolution.
Salt is absolutely necassary for human life,
physiologically,/ meat dehydration / leather etc
with consumtion rate 100/200 grms per
capapita/day
and its sources have been limited, so much
so, that it
was a critical demographic power factor for all
communities,
until industrial means of extraction were
devised.
It was the "money" of those days
[and the "salary" and "sale" of today].
Salt was more important, "then" than petroleum
is today.
The Saltpetre industry in India was [for
example], controlled by the British in
competition to others, by means of the
salt monopoly, an allied industry
Thank you - David Bloch
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