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Nitrate deposits in southeastern California with notes on deposits in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico
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Year: 1931 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : Washington : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, United States Government Printing Office.

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Nitrate deposits of the United States
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Year: 1932 Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : Washington : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, United States Government Printing Office.

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Geology and origin of the Chilean nitrate deposits
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Year: 1981 Publisher: Washington : United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey,

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Sustainability of natural attenuation of nitrate in agricultural aquifers
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Year: 2010 Publisher: [Reston, Va.] : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,

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Saltpeter : the mother of gunpowder
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ISBN: 9780199695751 019969575X Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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"This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.' National security depended on control of this organic material - that had both mystical and mineral properties. Derived from soil enriched with dung and urine, it provided the heart or 'mother' of gunpowder, without which no musket or cannon could be fired. Its acquisition involved alchemical knowledge, exotic technology, intrusions into people's lives, and eventual dominance of the world's oceans. The quest for saltpeter caused widespread 'vexation' in Tudor and Stuart England, as crown agents dug in homes and barns and even churches. Governments hungry for it purchased supplies from overseas merchants, transferred skills from foreign experts, and extended patronage to ingenious schemers, while the hated 'saltpetermen' intruded on private ground. Eventually, huge saltpeter imports from India relieved this social pressure, and by the eighteenth century positioned Britain as a global imperial power; the governments of revolutionary America and ancien regime France, on the other hand, were forced to find alternative sources of this treasured substance. In the end, it was only with the development of chemical explosives in the late Victorian period that dependency on saltpeter finally declined."--Publisher's description.


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Australian commodity statistics.
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ISSN: 18398391 Year: 1995 Publisher: Canberra : ABARE,

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Commercial products --- Natural resources --- Agriculture --- Fisheries --- Forests and forestry --- Economic aspects --- Produits commerciaux --- Ressources naturelles --- Pêches --- Forêts --- Commercial products. --- Natural resources. --- Landbouwproducten. --- Delfstoffen. --- Aspect économique --- Economic aspects. --- Australia. --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Forest economics --- Forest production --- Forestry economics --- Commodities --- Economic goods --- Merchandise --- Products, Commercial --- Commodity exchanges --- Manufactures --- Substitute products --- Fishery economics --- Agrarian question --- Agribusiness --- Agricultural economics --- Agricultural production economics --- Production economics, Agricultural --- Land use, Rural --- Forest land --- Forest lands --- Forest planting --- Forest sciences --- Forestation --- Forested lands --- Forestland --- Forestlands --- Forestry --- Forestry industry 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