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Lick me
Nov 23, 2023 21:11:09 GMT -5
Post by parfive on Nov 23, 2023 21:11:09 GMT -5
It is a taxonomy of taste – and of sight and smell too, as the specimens are burnt, boiled, dissolved, all reacting in different ways, minutely described. The account as a whole is redolent with a literary flavour that is part alchemy, part sensual experience of rock, part scientific analysis. And, of course, in days when there was no chemical analytical equipment – and indeed no framework of chemistry in any way that we now understand it – it was a sensible means to throw a little light on those enigmatic but useful rocks.
Eating fossils
www.palass.org/publications/newsletter/eating-fossils
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