Re: COLONIAL WEAPONS

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From: "B Lin" <lin@rxkinetix.com>
> Potassium Nitrate is easy if you're on farm.	As Oerjan points out -
everyone has to pee.  In medieval times, before pure deposits were
found,
the most common way of collecting KNO3 was to lift manure piles.  After
aging for a while, the potassium nitrate concentrates as a white ring on
the
bottom of manure piles.

How much Nitrate can you get that way ? Could a farm provide enough for
the
gunpowder needed by the farmers ?
How did, say, people in early America get their gunpowder ?

Not neccesarily doubting it, just curious.

Greetings