885: Famine is Coming (This Episode Explains Why): Interview with Steven Harris
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The Chemistry of Pyrotechnics
In pyrotechnics, we learn that if we take nitre, or what farmers just call nitrogen, but this is going to be in the form of nitre. And there are lots of bird droppings off the coast of chile when the birds fly into their nests and so on. So a birds extrete urine, fecal material and their eggs all through the same spot. That collects into the ocean or on the island. There's a great history of if you found an island full of of bird guano, you could claim it as territory of the united states,. which is how we got some of our islands in the pacific.
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