until the dye works in Constantinople was destroyed
and European royalty adopted carmine
extracted from the bodies and eggs
of cochineal insects. Doesn’t it seem
as though the symbolic importance of a thing
is far more important than its rarity,
although there does seem to have been
a certain correspondence between the two?
Bromine, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, chlorine, and iodine
are nonmetals that exist naturally in a diatomic state.
Even though it is toxic in its pure elemental form,
it is essential for all animals,
required for the formation of collagen.
Bromine, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, chlorine, and iodine are nonmetals that exist naturally in a diatomic state. Even though it is toxic in its pure elemental form, it is essential for all animals, required for the formation of collagen.
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