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Happy birthday to chemist William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)! This lino block print ‘William Henry Perkin Discovers Mauve’ is about how the British chemist & entrepreneur made the serendipitous discovery of the 1st synthetic organic dye: mauveine. ⁠
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Perkins entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853 when he was only 15, studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann. 🧵1/

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Linocut print of Perkins in grey, a suited, bearded Victorian, at a wooden lab bench covered in glassware and chemical apparatus. He holds a flask at eye level with bright mauve fluid. Wide bright mauve lines radiate outward from it in the background.

Ele Willoughby, PhD

@minouette@spore.social · 6 days ago

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Mike Malaska

@mike_malaska@deepspace.social · last week

Very neat article examining how calcium carbonate gets dissolved in oceans, sequestering away CO2 into the deep cold ocean.

Borer et al., Microbially enhanced dissolution of calcite in sinking marine particles. PNAS, 2026,
Came out yesterday, so this is pretty fresh Science!

UPDATED: Link to free version (thanks to @Artemis201 for finding this!) https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/165057/ParticleDissolution_borer_PNAS_Revision2_FiguresWithin.pdf

So...what is happening? Why should we care?

This touches a lot of sciences:

#karst #geology #chemistry #biology