[ 68 ] Interesting Facts About the Great Fire of London.
The Fire Started on Pudding Lane... Picture the scene: it’s
1 am in the morning on 2 nd September 1666 and Thomas
Farriner is fast asleep in his bed... that is, until he notices his
bakery on Pudding Lane (a name almost too good to be true)
is on fire. After what I’m sure was a few moments of mad
panic, Farriner woke his family and they had to leap out of
the window to escape the flames. Historians believe that the
fire was likely started by a spark from Farriner’s oven
landing on nearby fuel. The long, hot summer that London
was having provided the perfect catalyst to the crazy fire that
spread from house to house. http://www.londonxlondon.com/great-
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[ 69 ]ATHANOR: A key symbol of alchemy, the Athanor is
the furnace of the Alchemists. However, as with everything
else in alchemy, the Athanor is no simple piece of laboratory
equipment. Regarded as the vessel in which transmutation
takes place, the Athanor exists on a metaphysical level, too,
as the Orphic Egg or as a place of ultimate creation, a kind of
universal womb. https://occult-world.com/athanor/
[ 70 ]Science News. Sewage could be a source of valuable
metals and critical elements. March 23 , 2015. American
Chemical Society. Summary: Poop could be a goldmine - -
literally. Surprisingly, treated solid waste contains gold,
silver and other metals, as well as rare elements such as
palladium and vanadium that are used in electronics and
alloys. Poop could be a goldmine - - literally. Surprisingly,
treated solid waste contains gold, silver and other metals, as
well as rare elements such as palladium and vanadium that
are used in electronics and alloys. Now researchers are
looking at identifying the metals that are getting flushed and
how they can be recovered. This could decrease the need for
mining and reduce the unwanted release of metals into the
environment.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/ 2015 / 03 / 150323075239 .htm
[ 71 ]Kathleen S (Kathy) Smith, Ph.D. Kathy Smith is a
Scientist Emeritus with the Geology, Geophysics, and
Geochemistry Science Center. My research examines
processes that influence metal concentration, speciation,
bioavailability, and mobility in low-temperature aquatic
systems. My general research interests include low-
temperature aqueous geochemistry, environmental
geochemistry, water/rock interactions, trace-element
geochemistry, metal bioavailability, environmental
toxicology of metals, characterization of mining wastes,
leaching techniques, and sampling methodologies. My recent
research topics include metal recovery from waste streams,
metal sorption and transport in mined and mineralized areas,
application of the biotic ligand model in mined and
mineralized areas, and sampling and monitoring methods for
the mine life cycle. Previous research topics include mine
waste characterization, mine drainage characterization,
geoenvironmental models, metal sorption onto iron
oxyhydroxides, effects of fluvial tailings deposits on water
quality, environmental effects of historical mining, and
development of multi-disciplinary methods.
ww.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/kathleen-s-kathy-
smith#publications[ 72 ]Leachate is a by-product derived from municipal solid
wastes due to their physical, chemical, and biological
changes and will be formed in landfills, incineration plants,
composting plants, and transfer stations, with high strength
and toxicity. Pollution control for leachate is a world-wide
concern and still a big challenge in source reduction and
pollutant removals. Leachate must be treated properly before
it is discharged into the water receivers or recycling using
integrated leachate treatment processes. In this book, the
leachate properties and treatment processes are fully
provided, including leachate generation and characteristics,
physical and chemical treatment processes, biological
treatment processes, irrigation of diluted leachate for plants
growth, and leachate treatment engineering processes designs
and constructions for municipal solid waste incineration
plants, landfills, and transfer stations.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-
sciences/leachate#:~:text=Leachate% 20 is% 20 defined% 20 as
% 20 any,content% 20 of% 20 certain% 20 disposed% 20 wastes[ 73 ]The use of gold as a therapeutic agent is very ancient.
In its elemental form it was used for thousands of years for
the treatment of palmar pruritus. Paracelsus recommended it
and mercury as an elixir of life, and in the eighteenth century
Abu Moussa used it as a panacea. The last century saw the
beginning of the study of various salts of this metal and their
possible therapeutic uses. The introduction to the
rheumatological pharmacopoeia was the result of a sequence
of not very scientific hypotheses. The story begins when
Robert Koch read at a medical congress in 1890 several
aspects related to the search for substances that would inhibit
in vitro the growth of the tubercle bacillus, which he had
discovered 8 years earlier. He then reported that only
sulphur-containing aurous salts, among the many compounds
he tested, were able to inhibit the growth of the
mycobacterium in culture. In 1913 Bruck and Glück reported
the therapeutic effectiveness of such salts in lupus vulgaris,