• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Liquid and acidic like garum? The fermented fish sauce the Romans put on pretty much everything?

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      10 hours ago

      Still not much in the grand scheme of things. Smelting lead to extract silver would have been a far greater contributor, especially since it makes the lead airborne as leaded fuel did recently.