MANUFACTURE OF NITRE
FROM THE ATMOSPHERE
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON, Mav - Professor Ramsay, speaking at a meeting of the British Science Guild, urged, in the interests of national defence, the manufacture of nitre from the atmosphere, instead of relying on Chilian'and Peruvian supplies, which an enemy would probably capture. (Nitre (or the nitrate of potash) is an important ingredient in the manufacture of gunpowder. Much nitre used to be artificially formed in Europe by imitating the conditions under which it is naturally produced.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10640, 20 May 1912, Page 5
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85MANUFACTURE OF NITRE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10640, 20 May 1912, Page 5
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