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by impish9208 340 days ago
Isaac Newton must be spinning in his grave.
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"I knew mercury was involved. Just knew it!"

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/newtons-recipe-for-alche...

Good lord, chemistryworld.

>"Historians now know that this was a pseudonym invented by the Harvard-educated chemist George Starkey, one of the US’s first published scientists. Starkey moved to England in 1650,..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Starkey

Man is amazing. Bummer about the plague.

*Quicksilver