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The Nitrate That Shaped the World: A Global History of Indian Saltpetre (1700-1850)
The central focus of research of this project is saltpetre, the main ingredient for making gunpowder or black powder. Gunpowder played an essential role in shaping the early modern and modern world both politically and economically. It was impossible to produce gunpowder without saltpetre; thus, …
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Micro-geochemistry of the mantle and its volcanic rocks
… was carried out on an olivine melilitite from Saltpetre Kop, South Africa with a similar mineral suite (with the addition of melilite). These results show that phenocrystal olivine and apatite provide the best record of the source Sr isotope composition whereas perovskite, typically analysed by …