INDUSTRIAL WASTE. “Laurent had to equip his laboratory entirely out of his own pocket. He sought out cheap materials, returning to a product he had worked with in the 1830s as an assistant to Dumas: coal tar. This pungent, greenish brown liquid was a discarded by-product of the gas used in street lighting, which Bordeaux had just begun implementing in the years before Laurent arrived.”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00026980.2020.1867786
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022