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unusual facts about Niter


Sir William Congreve, 1st Baronet

This resulted in an improved method of extracting saltpetre and consequently higher quality gunpowder.


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Marcellus Empiricus

Other ingredients likely to have been rare for Marcellus’s intended audience include cinnamon, cloves, candied tragacanth, Alexandrian niter, and African snails, perhaps the Giant African land snail, which are prescribed live for pulping into a mélange.


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