It was known that the saltpetre miners in the cave were using one of the sloth's leg-bones to prop up a saltpetre vat to aid in the process of manufacturing gunpowder nitre, but this leg was lost to time.
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His death was very much regretted, which was caused by the stupidity of Laurence Tulloch, of Clotherton, who sold him nitre instead of Epsom salts, by which he was killed in the space of 3 hours after taking a dose of it.
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Lead mines were opened and worked, and a chemical laboratory was established and successfully operated in aid of the Ordnance Department and in the manufacture of calomel, castor oil, spirits of nitre, the various tinctures of iron, and other valuable medicines.
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River red gum forest / woodland, black box woodland, lignum / nitre goosefoot ( " Chenopodium nitrariaceum " ) shrubland, and spike rush ( " Eleocharis " spp . ) dominated sedgeland are identified as important vegetation classes in the area.
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Sheltered areas behind dunes support " Salsola kali " and " Myoporum insulare " and also " Nitraria billardierei " ( nitre bush ), the last of these being the only plant on the island to grow over m ( 5 ft ) high.
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The Nitre and mining Bureau took over the Silver Hill, North Carolina mines production . " In the opening stages of the war, geologists and government agents underscored the value and scope of Silver Hill's lead deposits, initially renting Mines for six hundred dollars per month.
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Around 1910, Swiss and German businesses opened in the community, including " Diamant " ( grinding materials ), the " Gotthardwerke " ( metal alloys ), the chemical plant " Nitre " ( production of nitrogen derivatives ) and two carbide factories.
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It's a little confusing because both saltpeter / saltpetre and niter / nitre have multiple meanings . ( I wonder if there's a 16th century version of the Anarchist's Cookbook anywhere ? )-- talk ) 13 : 04, 13 July 2011 ( UTC)
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In 1057 Solomon was besieged by Geza I and escaped with the crown and treasure in the direction of Bratislava in order to seek the protection of his brother-in-law Emperor Henry IV . Soldiers of Geza apprehended him as he was fording the V�h near Ivanka pri Nitre.
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A study of Emu scat and its seed composition found that " E . tomentosa " made up 8.5 % of the near 20, 000 seeds identified, second highest only to Nitre Bush ( " Nitraria billardierei " ) which made up 80 % of identified seed.
