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Today we hear why chewing pencils may have been bad for Beethoven!

Tags:

• Archaeology
• excavation
• lead
• plumbism
• poison
• toxic
• ludwig van beethoven
• composer
• hair
• analysis
• APS
• advanced photon source
• science
• measure
• chewing
• composing
• thought
• thinking
• day dreaming pain
• illness
• deaf
• deafness
• death
• killed

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