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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

Progress happens with every death

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    Also a ton of discoveries and inventions are on accident while looking for completely different things.

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      One of my favourite stories is the accidental discovery of synthetic purple dye. IIRC there was a chemist researching something completely unrelated and when he disposed some assorted chemicals down a sink he noticed they turned purple.

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        Also, I believe the rubber was discovered by a scientist accidentally dropping a mixture of a bunch of materials like resin onto a burner, which made it volcanize (man I hope I got the word right) into a layer of rubber in the middle

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          Vulcanize, haha. All good, though!

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_LSD#Discovery

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