Humourous (2025-04-05)
Humourous (2025-04-05)
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That one needs an explain-smbc...
Anyway, looks like "green vitriol" = iron sulfate (so it's enriched with iron), "spirit of hartshorn" = amonia (spoiled beans certainly release lots of this), "brimstone" = sulfur, "quicksilver" = mercury, and "aquafortis" = nitrates (on this context, but also nitric acid - afaik, our bodies can't use nitrates for anything).
(EDIT: yes, quicksilver is mercury, not lead.)
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I thought quicksilver was mercury.
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Aquafortis is specifically nitric acid. It's called that because it can dissolve "any" metal except for gold. Where "any" is "anything they knew about in the middle ages".
also, green vitriol is actually green. And blue vitriol, copper sulfate, is (surprise) blue. Copper sulfate is also what they put in antifreeze as a vomiting agent. I once had a single drop as a mistake, and it works REALLY well.
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And the stuff that can dissolve gold: aquaregia
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Quicksilver is mercury, but anyway thank you!
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Where are you seeing aquafortis
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Bonus panel
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All from the first result in Duckduckgo. Mostly wikipedia, but I got "aqua fortis" on some dictionary.
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Note that homeopathic ...products... actually do this.
I've done a few "homeopathic overdose" things, in front of homeopathy believers. It's hilarious to see them immediately switch from "this is a super powerful medicine that you should take seriously" to "oh, it's just SO safe you can't overdose on it", and then right around to "the fact that you took 200 sleeping pills and feel fine is because your energies are not aligned"
Indeed. But I don't trust their QA not to have a highly shaken glob of lead make it through to the sugar pill
The difference is that unlike homeopathic products here the products actually contain these chemicals.