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…

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…

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…

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…

A Survey of Birds and Fabulous Stones

Christopher J. Duffin (2012): A Survey of Birds and Fabulous Stones, Folklore, 123:2, 179-197 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.2012.682477 Summary: The records of fabulous stones associated with birds are here examined systematically for the…

Eagle stones

For the mushroom, see Mycena aetites. In the magico-medical tradition of Europe and the Near East, the aetites (singular in Latin) or aetite (anglicized) is a stone used to promote childbirth. It is also called an eagle-stone, aquiline, or aquilaeus. The stone is said…

1911 EncyclopĂŠdia Britannica/Limonite

LIMONITE, or Brown Iron Ore, a natural ferric hydrate named from the Gr. λΔÎčΌώΜ (meadow), in allusion to its occurrence as “bog-ore” in meadows and marshes. It is never crystallized, but may have a…

Supergene (geology) and something called gossan cap

In ore deposit geology, supergene processes or enrichment are those that occur relatively near the surface as opposed to deep hypogene processes. Supergene processes include the predominance of meteoric water circulation (i.e. water derived from precipitation) with concomitant oxidation and chemical weathering. The…

Hapten

In immunology, haptens are small molecules that elicit an immune response only when attached to a large carrier such as a protein; the carrier may be one that also does not elicit an immune response by itself (in general, only…

Surfeit

surfeit (n.) early 14c., “excess quantity;” late 14c., “overindulgence,” from Old French sorfet “excess; arrogance” (Modern French surfait), noun use of past participle of surfaire “overdo,” from sur- “over” (see sur- (1)) + faire “do,” from Latin facere “to make, do” (from PIE root *dhe- “to…

List of human clusters of differentiation (OR CD) MOLECULES

* = group; ** = not listed on hcdm CD1* MHC-like molecule that presents lipid molecules CD1a CD1a (Cluster of Differentiation 1a), or T-cell surface glycoprotein CD1a, is a human protein encoded by the CD1A gene. An antigen-presenting…

Orotidine 5′-phosphate decarboxylase

Orotidine 5′-phosphate decarboxylase (OMP decarboxylase) or orotidylate decarboxylase is an enzyme involved in pyrimidine biosynthesis. It catalyzes the decarboxylation of orotidine monophosphate (OMP) to form uridine monophosphate (UMP). The function of this enzyme is essential to the de novo biosynthesis of the pyrimidine nucleotides uridine…