impurifying

The internet is impurifying our precious bodily fluids, Mandrake

Boing Boing 2007

• The internet is impurifying our precious bodily fluids, Mandrake

Boing Boing 2007

By operating with very large quantities in weight, Stas unconsciously laid himself open to one of the most serious of the sources of error referred to, that of carrying out his precipitating reactions in much too concentrated solutions, the consequence of which was that the undissociated salts present in the solution were condensed on the phases separated off in solid form, thereby impurifying them in a much higher degree than the experimenters, with the knowledge they possessed at that time, had reason to expect.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1914 - Presentation 1966