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The Rhubarb Connection and Other Revelations: The Everyday World of Metal Ions
By
Jacques Covès;
Jacques Covès
CNRS Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble
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Raychelle Burks
Raychelle Burks
St. Edward’s University, USA
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Paperback ISBN:
978-1-78801-094-8
PDF ISBN:
978-1-83916-850-5
EPUB ISBN:
978-1-78801-669-8
Special Collection:
RSC Popular Science eBook Collection
Product Type:
Popular Science
No. of Pages:
212
Publication date:
06 Dec 2018
Book Chapter
CHAPTER 5: Down to Earth Chemistry
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Published:06 Dec 2018
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Special Collection: RSC Popular Science eBook CollectionProduct Type: Popular Science
Page range:
49 - 71
Citation
The Rhubarb Connection and Other Revelations: The Everyday World of Metal Ions, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018, pp. 49-71.
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Kicking off with dubious commercial attempts in the 19th and early 20th century to extract gold from sea water, this chapter moves on to cyanide via the deadly chemical's usage in gold extraction from ore, detailing its more deadly uses (hydrogen cyanide as used by the Nazis) and its more beautiful ones (the pigment known as Prussian Blue). A brief segue takes us through the gold test for cocaine, before returning to the deadly, this time in the form of Anthrax – the iron thief.
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