Talk:Aluminium sulfacetate

A fact from Aluminium sulfacetate appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 December 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that an 1899 publication recommended that use of an impure aluminium sulfacetate preparation as a mordant "should be abandoned", as it is an "empyreumatic liquid"?

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Aluminium triacetate is tricky stuff[edit]

It seems to verge on glibness to describe a near-alchemical brew as consisting of aluminium triacetate, which is also nearly mythical. Forgive me if I am being harsh.--Smokefoot (talk) 03:43, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]