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Lant (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 4 months ago by Plum@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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Lant is aged urine. The term comes from Old English hland, which referred to urine. Collected urine was put aside to ferment until used for its chemical content in many pre-industrial processes, such as cleaning and production.

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[–] Jazsta@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

Equally foul as it is interesting. Thanks for sharing