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“For, in the end, Brearley did manage to create cutlery from stainless steel, and it’s the transparent protective layer of chromium oxide that makes the spoon tasteless, since your tongue never actually touches the metal and your saliva cannot react with it; it has meant that we are one of the first generations who have not had to taste our cutlery.”
― Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
― Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
“We’ll see if he still feels that way the first time the selection committee leaves out Alabama.”
― The Thinking Fan's Guide to the College Football Playoff
― The Thinking Fan's Guide to the College Football Playoff
“When I approached him a second time with the cameras rolling, Munson grabbed the microphone and suggested I perform a physical impossibility.”
― Ball Four
― Ball Four
“as if the cops expected the big gray sedan to start up by itself, like that old Plymouth in the horror movie,”
― Mr. Mercedes
― Mr. Mercedes
“The appreciation of wine was based solely on the way it tasted. The invention of drinking glasses meant that the color, transparency, and clarity of wine became important, too. We are used to seeing what we drink, but this was new to the Romans, and they loved it.”
― Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
― Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World
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