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26 jul. 2021

@RealSardonicus

‘Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the middle of the C20th, and the material remains stable for decades. Then, in a flash, they can dramatically decompose’

From Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell, 2002.

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