http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
Whoa. Apparently, a lemon still produces more electricity…
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Baghdad Battery (researching copper)
Friday, November 7, 2008
another research tidbit
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
About musk (usually taken from deer to act as a fixative in perfumes):
Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), a rodent native to North America, has been known since the 17th century to secrete a glandular substance with a musky odor.[3] A chemical means of extracting it was discovered in the 1940s, but it did not prove commercially worthwhile.
Oh, [...]
doing research
Sunday, October 5, 2008
…and came upon this gem:
When Nazi Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and [...]