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October 6, 2015 02:09 pm PDT

If you don't know how important pee was in the history of science, urine for a surprise

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Urine is golden so it must have some link to gold, thought medieval alchemists seeking to devise methods to transmute base metal into gold.

Not quite, but they did discover that pee is rich with the miraculous bearer of light, aka phosphorus. (American Chemical Society)


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