(1) lead products
"Lead compounds ... not only lead white is used for beauty. This seems to have a light taste. ...
Romans really love lead, just as modern people like plastic. Lead can be found everywhere because it is easy to process. Although some people now think that this has little to do with the fall of Rome, they are still telling that many nobles have no descendants.
They went into the house to take a bath, drink water and wash chrysanthemums. Water pipes are made of lead, because lead can be easily processed into complex patterns.
There is a lead leak-proof water tank for storing water.
Keywords lead jar shochu, wine filling,
Seafood zucchini soup cooked in a lead basin,
Lead casting roofing waterproof material,
He still has a pile of copper coins rich in lead in his pocket.
By the way, there are bronze faucets ... Now let's see who drinks water from a bronze cup and who cooks soup from a bronze tripod ... only one. ...
Accurately speaking, the cups of nobles in that era were mainly made of silver and glass, followed by pottery, and lead cups were not common.
Ordinary people are not exposed to so much lead, and high blood lead content will make it difficult to conceive.
There is also lead acetate (lead sugar, the sweetness is 70% of sucrose, and I don't know why it is so calculated. Anyway, someone has calculated the sweetness of this product), because it tastes sweet. ...
The Romans used lead cups to fill wine, because the acetic acid and lead in inferior wine would produce delicious lead sugar, which could improve the sour taste and make it sweeter, and the longer it was preserved, the sweeter it would be. ...
A pot made of lead concentrated grape juice and wine. (The concentration of poison is not high enough) ... It can prolong the shelf life ... Why not use copper, because copper vessels are easy to patina, which will make wine bitter (copper ions are bitter, although I have never tasted them) ... Lead is amazing, which can consume acetic acid in wine (reduce acidity), and also generate lead acetate to increase sweetness. ...
The Romans also boiled sour grape juice in a lead pot, and finally got a rich and sweet "dead syrup"-a glucose solution filled with lead acetate, which was very popular ... it was much cheaper than honey. At that time, only a group of people around India could cook sucrose, and nobles and civilians welcomed this dead syrup. Smooth and round
Lead is also added to glass, which can make the glass more transparent ... Alas, this kind of glass looks like crystal, crystal clear and extremely advanced. It is also used as high-grade and exquisite flagons, wine glasses and other edible utensils, especially crystal glass wine glasses and champagne cups. Think about it, too. Golden yellow and crimson wine is very beautiful in a crystal clear glass.
There is also optical glass, which used to be used for lenses, but now the equipment party is crazy about it.
Later, since the 20th century, there have been even worse things about lead.
Lead in gasoline
The following is from the translation network.
The fatal temptation of lead-the long history of human lead poisoning
Thomas Midgley Jr., an ordinary chemist, is extremely blind and bold in his behavior. He is the man who put lead in gasoline.
192 1 as a clever young chemist in general motors, he found that adding tetraethyl lead compound to gasoline can make the engine run more efficiently and eliminate the uncontrollable clicking sound in early cars.
When asked about the harm of leaded gasoline, Midgley held a press conference, at which he poured leaded gasoline into his hand and inhaled its volatiles for a whole minute, claiming that he could do it every day without any adverse consequences.
In fact, Midgley had been suffering from lead poisoning for several months before and after this. At the same time, GM's ethyl plant in New Jersey was forced to close after several workers went crazy and died. The media gave tetraethyl lead gasoline another name called "crazy gas".
This problem was discovered by child psychologist Herbert Niederl Mann. After numerous struggles and frame-ups, companies such as General Motors were allowed to give up this dangerous additive.
Radioactive products such as uranium products (including radium) are used as children's toys, beauty products and health products. ...
The most dangerous toy? Playing with radioactive elements —— Excerpted from the new book Interesting Time published by Beihang Press on 20 15.
Also, chocolate containing radium, toothpaste, water, bread and so on.
The following comes from the shell.
Eat a piece of chocolate containing radium-the eight most "radium" commodities in history
1945. Auergesellschaft company in Berlin, Germany invented Doramad toothpaste. The founder of this company is Carl Orr, who invented the lampshade of the steam lamp. On the back of the toothpaste tube, it says: "Radiation protects teeth, strengthens gums ... inhibits bacterial growth, makes your cells full of new vitality ... gently polishes enamel to make it glow white and bright".
At the beginning of the 20th century, Radium Ore Revigator Company introduced water treated with radium ore, claiming that it was a "natural road to health", which could make people live forever, rejuvenate, cure all diseases and prevent diseases. ...
(2) A toy about uranium
This is 195 1, a popular children's toy and radiation laboratory in America.
The price is nearly 50 dollars. Why is it so expensive?
The price is nearly 50 dollars. Why is it so expensive?
Because there is really uranium -238 ore in it! A * * * four dollars! ! It's worth it, dear! ! !
(3) gird the waist
Wearing a waist will change people's ribs and bones, and if it is too tight, it will kill people.
Waist girdling provides a "second skeleton" for women, helping them to shape a posture that meets the requirements of the times and status. There is a whale bone, wood, ivory, horn or metal brace in the middle of the French corset to keep it straight.
In Europe in the19th century, any dignified woman must wear this kind of corset underwear, and women are oppressed by boards, whale bones and metal bars all day long. From the chest defense to the belly, women are full of enthusiasm. In order to have a slim figure, they tighten their belts and tie them tightly until a long and deep wound appears on the ribs, which goes deep into the skin and even dies.
Worse than foot binding. . . .
No matter which one hurts the most, both of them are deformed and horrible. .
People all over the world love thin waists, and waist seals are also enduring. Many girls pull themselves into an hourglass shape. Some people know that this is bad for their health, while others may not.
Compared with foot binding, waist binding is obviously accepted by more people. According to the topic, waist binding is very popular in ancient and modern times, but it is rare in modern times, because everyone knows that waist binding has a great influence on health. However, the popularity of foot binding is relatively short and the area is relatively small, which is a relatively forced way to distort the natural development of the body. Most women are forced.
So foot binding was considered harmful from the beginning ... in this case, waist binding is still a bit scary.