Nitric acid

Medieval · Materials · 1300

TL;DR

Nitric acid - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Nitric acid - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Required Knowledge

  • Alchemy

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Nitric acid:

Guncotton Ostwald nitric acid process Aqua regia

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Path Dependence

Related Inventions

Ostwald nitric acid process Guncotton Aqua regia

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Chemistry

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