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▲ Lant – The Forgotten Resource(sites.udel.edu)
16 points by kreyenborgi 4 days ago | 2 comments
▲silverFork 4 days ago | parent [-]

Really interesting article. I had no idea that they aged urine and that they used it as nitrogen to make gun powder for centuries! bacteria would convert urine to nitrites!

▲noufalibrahim an hour ago | parent [-]

I didn't know that either. However, it did remind me of a scene in McCarthy's Blood Meridian where the process of manufacturing gunpowder is described. https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/24314/does-bl...