I'm moving all my investments to the Borax futures market.  With this news,
it's bound to take off.  I'm gonna corner the market!

M


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Dasspunk <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Joseph Nagyvary, a professor emeritus of biochemistry at Texas A&M
> University, has spent 33 years trying to prove his theory that
> chemicals used on the instruments are responsible for the distinctive
> sounds of the violins, the university reported.
>
> Tests showed numerous chemicals in the wood, including borax,
> fluorides, chromium and iron salts.
>
> "The presence of these chemicals all points to collaboration between
> the violin makers and the local drugstore and druggist at the time,"
> Nagyvary said Thursday in a release. "Their probable intent was to
> treat the wood for preservation purposes. Both Stradivari and Guarneri
> would have wanted to treat their violins to prevent worms from eating
> away the wood because worm infestations were very widespread at that
> time."
>
>
> http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/01/22/Secrets_of_Stradivarius_violins_discovered/UPI-91351232685420/
> >
>

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