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Solid Gold: Poop Could Yield Precious Metals – Live Science
It’s not just gold that could be mined and sold. Waste contains elements like vanadium and copper that could be used in devices such as cellphones and computers, the researchers… Read more.
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Americans poop up to $4.2B in precious metals every year – New York Post
Poop could be a gold mine — and that’s no load of crap! You could be flushing a fortune in feces down the toilet in the form of tiny nuggets of… Read more.
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Sewage sludge could contain millions of dollars worth of gold – Science
If the holy grail of medieval alchemists was turning lead into gold, how much more magical would it be to draw gold from, well, poop?…In a new study, scientists at… Read more.
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Gold in faeces ‘worth millions’ – BBC
US researchers are investigating ways to extract the gold and precious metals from human faeces..Details were outlined at the 249th national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Denver…The… Read more.
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How Poop Can Be Worth $9.5 Billion
According to a smart study by a United Nations think tank on water, environment and health, there may be a simple—and profitable—solution: turn human waste from a disposal problem to an energy… Read more.
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Stinking Rich? Human Waste Contains Gold, Research Finds – Time
Deploying an electron microscope, Dr. Kathleen Smith and her team spent eight years unearthing minuscule metal particles in treated solid waste. “The gold we found was at the level of… Read more.
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Your poop could be a literal goldmine of precious metals – Washington Post
You may know that you can earn $13,000 a year selling your own feces, but now it seems that the U.S. government stands to make bank on your solid waste, as… Read more.
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Karl Landsteiner – discovered poliovirus, the rhesus factor, described as the father of transfusion medicine
Karl Landsteiner ForMemRS (14 June 1868 – 26 June 1943) was an Austrian-born American biologist, physician, and immunologist. He distinguished the main blood groups in 1900, having developed the modern system of classification of blood groups from… Read more.
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Rosolio (from around the internets)
Rosolio is a type of Italian liqueur made from a base of alcohol, sugar, and water in the same proportion, which is flavored by adding an essence of any of various types. Despite a… Read more.
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Cochineal Etymology
cochineal (n.) “brilliant crimson dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of a species of insect,” 1580s, from French cochenille (16c.), probably from Spanish cochinilla, from a diminutive of Latin coccinus (adj.) “scarlet-colored,” from coccum “berry (actually an insect)… Read more.
