Kookie215@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-211 hours agoIf I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?message-squaremessage-square184fedilinkarrow-up1162arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1158arrow-down1message-squareIf I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?Kookie215@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · edit-211 hours agomessage-square184fedilinkfile-text
Its the 14th century and you’ve had no time to prepare, after you’re done reading this post you are snapped. What do you do?
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 hours agoHow to make soap: Mix a fat or oil with a strong base like potassium hydroxide, resulting in an exothermic reaction called saponification.
minus-squareFonzie!@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up4·11 hours agoWhere do you get potassium hydroxide from in the 12th century?
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 hours agoSoak wood ash in water.
minus-squarefeddup@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 hours agoThanks! at least I have a plan now, if I were to suddenly appear hundreds of years ago, I’ll probably just die
How to make soap: Mix a fat or oil with a strong base like potassium hydroxide, resulting in an exothermic reaction called saponification.
Where do you get potassium hydroxide from in the 12th century?
Soak wood ash in water.
Oh neat, thanks!
Thanks! at least I have a plan now, if I were to suddenly appear hundreds of years ago, I’ll probably just die