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Crystallization of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683.

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Furnace for processes where protracted heat required, such as cementation, 1580.

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Athanor or 'Slow Harry', a self-feeding furnace maintaining a constant temperature, 1683.

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Assayer testing samples of gold or silver using a balance, 1683. Artist: Lazarus Ercker

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Laboratory for refining gold and silver, showing typical laboratory equipment, 1683.

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Preparation of copper and silver to be alloyed for production of coins, 1683.

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Blast furnaces, 1683.

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Refining copper using the 'Hungarian' process, 1683.

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Lead chamber for production of sulphuric acid, 1866.

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Sectional view of Gay-Lussac's lead chambers and absorption towers, 1870.

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Producing salt by evaporating natural brine by pouring it into a pit of burning charcoal, 1556

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Checking the quality of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683.

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).

Unique Identifier AR925270

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Purpose Public

Size 4645px × 3760px

Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY

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Chemical industry

industrial chemistry

Oxford Science Archive

potassium nitrate

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quality control

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

SIXTEENTH CENTURY