Six stages of fat salvage. Shipped in metal drums, the glycerine is no longer recognizable as waste fat. Its nitric and sulphuric acids are added, it becomes deadly nitroglycerine for explosives. When gylcerine is allocated to one of our allies, it is usually shipped in its harmless state Related Na
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"Six stages of fat salvage. Shipped in metal drums, the glycerine is no longer recognizable as waste fat. Its nitric and sulphuric acids are added, it becomes deadly nitroglycerine for explosives. When gylcerine is allocated to one of our allies, it is usually shipped in its harmless state Related Na" (1942–1943). FSA/OWI. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shipped_in_metal_drums,_the_glycerine_is_no_longer_recognizable_as_waste_fat_8b13094v.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 124929.
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