Comment on what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment?

treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ira Remsen¹’s Investigation of Nitric Acid, which can easily be found in several educational websites by looking up, for instance, “nitric acid acts upon trousers”.

  1. Ira Remsen (1846-1927) founded the chemistry department at Johns Hopkins and initiated the first center for chemical research in the USA.

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