09 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
The Charcoal Produced by Respiration
A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will convert seventy ounces, and a horse seventy-nine ounces, solely by the act of respiration. That is, the horse in twenty-four hours burns seventy-nine ounces of charcoal, or carbon, in his organs of respiration to supply his natural warmth in that time ..., not in a free state, but in a state of combination.According to Faraday, a horse produces 79oz of charcoal in 24 hours just by breathing.
14 DEC 2011 by ideonexus
Bacon's Recipe for Gun Powder
Sed tamen salis petrae. VI. Part V. NOV. CORVLI. ET V. sulphuris, et sic facies toniitrum et coruscationem: sic facies artificium. But, however, of saltpetre take six parts, live of young willow (charcoal), and five of sulphur, and so you will make thunder and lightning, and so you will turn the trick. Bacon's recipe for Gunpowder, partly expressed as an anagram in the original Latin.Presented in rhyme and in an anagram in Latin.