A produção do salitre no Brasil colonial

Abstract

This article discusses the processes inherent in the production of salpeter in Colonial Brazil.In the main, the texts seen here present recipes accompanied by chemical explanations of the processes which denote a knowledge of science at the time.Various difficulties confronting the authors, however, prevented an effective contribution to the development of techniques for the production of salpeter.Consequenttly, at the end of the Nineteenth Century, Brazilian rulers are still facing many problems to obtain this precious material.

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