Ingredients
Ingredients is a regular Popula column, in which we explore the things that go into other things in order to become the things that they are.
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CO2: Foe, or… Friend?
Supercritical CO2 is heavy like a liquid but as penetrating as a gas, with surprisingly weird and useful properties.
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Green-Eyed Lion Eating the Sun
All of gold’s experimental value pales in comparison to the sheer drama of its impact on the alchemists
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Hemlock
Of Philosophical Deaths and Slowly Strangling Sheep
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Fire Season
I bought a bigger axe, a better handsaw; I borrowed a too-tiny electric chainsaw. I concluded that Pa Ingalls from the Little House books must have been swole.
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Chlorine
A little to drink, a bit more to swim, a lot to kill.
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Heavy Stuff
Lead is useful; lead is poison.
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Sea Glass
A small amount of the trash we put in the ocean ends up right back where it came from.
