Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
In Chapter 16, what reference is made to cave men?
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"He [Uncle Tungsten] would conjure up the first smelting of metal, how cavemen might have used rocks containing a copper mineral — green malachite perhaps — to surround a cooking fire and suddenly realized as the wood turned to charcoal that the green rock was bleeding, turning into a red liquid, molten copper."
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood