After figuring out the answer to my own question I took home a small amount of the appropriate chemicals and mixed them together in front of the Pawns.
They were disappointed, when I called them round, that the answer to their own question (‘Is it going to explode?’) was ‘No’. But they were delighted when I made the dark blue dye of Prussian uniforms.
They’ve been hassling me to give them some to take into school and show their friends. The Elder Pawn told her teacher about the experiment, who now wants to know what the chemicals involved are.
I will look forward to hearing of the teacher’s reaction (har har).
So the dye isn’t made from the ground-up bones of long-dead Germans?
I think I need to make a phone call to Herr Burke.
So the dye isn’t made from the ground-up bones of long-dead Germans?
It might have been originally, until
Richarda chemist found how to do it artificially.