Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Applications of Chemical Processes

This post will go through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’s applications of chemical processes for Prelim Chemistry.]

Detoxifying Food

There are various traditional practices that were employed by Indigenous Australians and Islanders used to detoxify foods that would otherwise be poisonous. This video looks at a few of these including the cycad which is a great example.

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