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Checking the quality of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683. Artist: Unknown
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Title:
Checking the quality of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683. Artist: Unknown
Caption:
Checking the quality of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683. Saltpetre is the principal ingredient in gunpowder, and is still used in the preservation of some foods. In medicine it was used internally as a diuretic, but now is only used externally for a number of conditions, such as asthma. From a 1683 English edition of Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen Ertzt by Lazarus Ercker. (Prague, 1574).
Credit:
Album / Oxford Science Archive / Heritage Images
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Image size:
4645 x 3760 px | 50.0 MB
Print size:
39.3 x 31.8 cm | 15.5 x 12.5 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
16 16TH XVI XVITH SIXTEENTH CENTURY • 16TH CENTURY • 17TH CENTURY • BLACK & WHITE • BLACK AND WHITE • CENTURY • CHEMICAL INDUSTRY • CHEMICAL • CHEMISTRY • CONCEPT • ENGRAVING • ERCKER • GUY • INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY • INDUSTRY • LAB • LABORATORIO • LABORATORY • LABORATORY; LAB • LAZARUS ERCKER • LAZARUS • MALE • MAN • MEN • MONOCHROMATIC • MONOCHROME • NITRE • PEOPLE • POTASSIUM NITRATE • QUALITY CONTROL • SALTPETER • SALTPETRE • SCIENCE • SEVENTEENTH CENTURY • SIXTEENTH CENTURY • WORK • WORKING
