I have lots of shoes made from leather, how about you?
I do too! I like to polish my leather. It's relaxing for me. How about you?
I prefer the smell of it unpolished. It has a very particular smell don't you think?
Yes, I agree. I wonder if the smell comes from the material or the tanning process.
I believe it's from the tanning process
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Traditionally, tanning used tannin, an acidic chemical compound from which the tanning process draws its name (tannin is in turn named after an old German word for oak or fir trees, from which the compound was derived). The use of a chromium (III) solution was adopted by tanners in the Industrial Revolution.
History.
The English word for tanning is from medieval Latin , derivative of (oak bark), from French (tanbark), from
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