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# Olympic games and supplements for athletes

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**23 July 2021 ** [Jcuriosity](https://www.jacobacci.com/en/news/tag/jcuriosity) ** [Danilo De Lorenzo](https://www.jacobacci.com/professionisti/danilo-de-lorenzo)

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> > Today the Olympic games begin: we all know how essential it is for athletes (but not only) to reintegrate mineral salts, such as potassium, in the body.

> > But few know that the first US patent was granted on July 31, 1790, when George Washington was US President, actually for a method of production of potassium carbonate (from the German Pottasche, or from the English Pot-ash) to Samuel Hopkins.  
> > Before the discovery of the possibility of extraction from rocks, in fact, potassium was produced exclusively by boiling wood ash in huge pots (Pot-ash).
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> > Thanks to [Danilo De Lorenzo](https://www.jacobacci.com/professionisti/danilo-de-lorenzo)

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