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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 1193 — SALTPETRE. GUNPOWDER. AQUAFORTIS.

William Johnston translation

More accounts of native saltpetre may be found in Recueil de Mémoires sur la Formation du Salpetre. Par les Commissaires de l’Academie. Paris, 1776, 8vo. Del Nitro Minerale Memoria dell’ ab. Fortis, 1787, 8vo.

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