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Wikipedia reports, "Saltpetre is thought to decrease sex drive, but there is no scientific evidence to support that the substance causes such an effect."
Printing: Afghanistan as Sports Event, Sexual Fantasy and Detour From the Hero's Journey 2009
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Each jar was labeled: Charcoal, Sulphur, Saltpetre.
B2fxxx 2009
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Wikipedia reports, "Saltpetre is thought to decrease sex drive, but there is no scientific evidence to support that the substance causes such an effect."
Afghanistan as Sports Event, Sexual Fantasy and Detour From the Hero's Journey 2009
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Saltpetre is plentiful, and a third “Sulphur hill” rises from the maritime plain north of the Wady Hamz.
The Land of Midian 2003
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Saltpetre and gunpowder we are every day producing.
Common Sense 2002
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Saltpetre to make powder, powder to drive bullets, bullets to kill the British.
Sharpe's Siege Cornwell, Bernard 1987
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L'orient for 1520 Bags of Saltpetre, which you will please to receive, and ship for
John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961
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Importation of so much Saltpetre, with a proportionable quantity of Sulphur, as with the Powder procured will make five hundred tons.
John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776 1961
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Saltpetre Laws, which obtained till the French Revolution.
Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman
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Montpellier, 1783; Elements of Chemistry; Treatise on Saltpetre and Tar;
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832 Various
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