POTASH, SALTPETER AND TAR.

Quantitative calculations on the use of natural resources provide valuable tools, which can give new insights to old questions and rise new ones. In this article, I compare the wood consumption in the production of potash, saltpeter and pine wood tar in 19th century Finland. My calculations shows th...

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Publicado en:Scandinavian Journal of History Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 281 - 312
Autor principal: Kunnas, Jan
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2007
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      ab: Quantitative calculations on the use of natural resources provide valuable tools, which can give new insights to old questions and rise new ones. In this article, I compare the wood consumption in the production of potash, saltpeter and pine wood tar in 19th century Finland. My calculations shows that in the 19th century the cumulative wood consumption in the production of potash might have been higher or at least on the same level as in the production of tar, while the production of saltpeter consumed only a fraction. In the 1830s their combined wood consumption reached the level of slash-and-burn cultivation.
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