Dear Angel: Wouldn't you agree that getting it out of the house was all that was called fo?. It had cost a couple hundred bucks, and was almost irreplaceable. It could have been put in a plastic bag and into storage locker. There no need to start a marital squabble. One partner has no right to destroy the other partner's belongings without a sensible discussion.

I don't know much about the chemistry of tanning leather, but obviously the proteins in the leather have to be changed into something not readily attacked by bacteria or fungi. Some kinds of tree bark used to be the mainstay. The family name Thayer meant leather tanner, because the bark in water solution was a "tay" long before the beverage reached Europe I believe.

The name "ammonia" derives from its preparation in deep pits of manure by priests of Egyptian temple of god Ammon .