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The Essay - Strange Encounters - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

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Strange Encounters Four scientists relive a key moment in their discipline. 3/4. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral In a cluttered lab in the 1820s, two German chemists show that living matter and minerals can be chemically identical, slaying the idea of a life force. Written by Andrea Sella.