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Better Living Through Chemistry; Innovate: Bullion cubes, fertilizer and aspirin? Credit Justus von Liebig.(LEADERS & SUCCESS)
Byline: LAURA MANDARO
In 1862, German chemist Justus von Liebig (1803-73) heard a bizarre story.
In Brazil and Uruguay, overexpansion of beef-salting plants had caused a severe drop in cattle prices.
Factories were slaughtering cattle just for their valuable hides, leaving the meaty carcasses to rot.
The storyteller was a railway engineer just back from the region. He knew of Liebig's work analyzing the chemistry of plants and animals.
So the engineer proposed a partnership.
Together they developed meat extract, a first of its kind. It became what we know today as the bullion cube.
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