Glass is made by mixing and heating silica (sand), sodium carbonate (soda) and limestone (calcium carbonate).聽 But, as we know, glass breaks quite easily, especially when subjected to sudden...
In the Sherlock Holmes story, The Case of the Illustrious Client, a former paramour seeks revenge on the dastardly Baron Adelbert Gruner by splashing the Baron鈥檚 face with sulphuric acid, which at...
When it comes to food, everyone has likes and dislikes. Chocolate generally gets favourable comments, spinach less so. But no flavour seems to elicit the degree of polarizing comments as that of...
"But in my judgement, which way soever they be drest and eaten they stir up and cause a filthie loathsome stinking winde with the bodie, thereby causing the belly to be much pained and tormented,...
The more you get involved with science, especially when it comes to matters of health, the more you realize how hard it is to 鈥渒now鈥� anything. Basically we end up making educated guesses based on...
During the Civil War northern forces blocked a number of Confederate ports. One of the consequences of the blockade was a dire shortage of cinchona bark imported from South America. The bark was in...
Science is as a quest for knowledge. Sometimes it ends with a clear-cut result, often not. The Earth goes around the sun. Water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen. The speed of light is 299,792,458...
To put it bluntly, Louis XVIII stank. It wasn鈥檛 from improper hygiene, although French kings weren鈥檛 particularly noted for their love of baths. The culprit was the gangrene oozing from his legs....
Yes some candies and other foods can be coloured with cochineal extract which is an approved food additive. Hernan Cortez was the first European to learn about this colourant when he became...
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