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December 31, 2012 02:24 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/KoadXszFdUE/ancient-chinese-art-used-a-tox.html
Ancient Chinese art used a toxic lacquer made from a relative of poison ivy
On Christmas Day, I watched a documentary about the terra cotta warriors — thousands of clay soldiers built as funerary objects for the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor. One crazy fact I learned: Unlike the type of lacquer we call shellac today (which comes from crushed beetles), ancient Chinese artists used a [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/KoadXszFdUE/ancient-chinese-art-used-a-tox.html
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