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14 December 2019

9:00 AM

14 December 2019

9:00 AM

Here’s how the element antimony got its name. Once upon a time (according to the 17th-century apothecary Pierre Pomet), a German monk (moine in French) noticed its purgative effects in animals. Fancying himself as a physician, he fed it to

his own Fraternity… but his Experiment succeeded so ill that every one who took of it died.

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