We need a GERN thread

[steinjr]

You are correct about the ambergris, but it was a by-product of the whaling industry, since it required dead whales to extract it from.

Not really. Ambergris can also be also found floating in the water, and washed up on beaches. The stuff being used now in North America has to come from other sources than dead whales.

So dead whales is not a requirement. But of course it would probably have been quite a bit easier to spot whales than to find floating or washed up clumps of ambergris.

Anyways - back to the GERN thread. I like the cool sounding commodity names. I mean - Anhydrous flux, Fluxene peroxide, Liquiflux - it has a definite industrial sound to it :-)

Grin,
Stein