nifty to Microblog MemesEnglish · 9 months agoDon’t ask how Poe wrote anythingimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1568arrow-down13file-text
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minus-squareBobbysauruslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·9 months agoMercury was used to stiffen hats for a long time. That is also the background for the “mat hatters”.
minus-squaredogsoahC@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·9 months agoBow do you stiffen something with mercury?
minus-squareSchadrach@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury(II)_nitrate specifically.
minus-squareMonkderDritte@feddit.decakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·edit-29 months agoMad as a hatter, mercury poisoning.
What’s that about hats?
Mercury was used to stiffen hats for a long time. That is also the background for the “mat hatters”.
Mats with hats?
Bow do you stiffen something with mercury?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury(II)_nitrate specifically.
Very carefully.
Mad as a hatter, mercury poisoning.