Here’s another lovely chemical term that’s been replaced. Sugar of lead, sugar of lead is now lead acetate.
As I said, there’s, you know, you lose something and you gain something when when language changes.
Yeah, you don’t want sugar of lead in your coffee. Words@waywordradio.org
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