Honestly, I think I would’ve been much more engaged in high school chemistry class if we’d talked about chemical reactions like the medieval alchemists did — that is, allegorically. “Let the red dragon devour the white eagle!” just sounds so much better than “take nitric acid and add ammonium chloride to it.” But while alchemy […]
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