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IN view of the interest attaching to the so-called artificial fertilisers, it may be worth recording that the idea of the possibility of utilising raw mineral phosphates as phosphatic fertiliser is to be found in the current agricultural publications some years before 1840, the date usually regarded as that of the first serious record.
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RUSSELL, E., SMITH, A. Discovery of the Use of Phosphates as Fertilisers. Nature 111, 116–117 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111116e0
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