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Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide? [pdf]
- bugfix-66 4y agoMemoir of a man in the industrial chemistry business in the mid-1900's. Accidental self-poisonings working with minimal safety measures (keeping the window open), etc. A story from the time before safety mattered.
- CharleFKane 4y agoI got introduced to this by way of Derek Lowe's blog: https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline and I really enjoyed it. The same site also has a PDF version of "Ignition!" which is both darn interesting and a lot funnier than a history of the early days of liquid fuel rocket propellants has a right to be.