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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 4: On Poisoning, Self-poisoning and the Euro
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Published:06 Dec 2018
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Special Collection: RSC Popular Science eBook CollectionProduct Type: Popular Science
Page range:
31 - 48
Citation
The Rhubarb Connection and Other Revelations: The Everyday World of Metal Ions, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018, pp. 31-48.
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Here chemists harvest hair from Oxford barbershops for their secret WWII project, then we learn about an arsenic-based chemical warfare agent and its antidote, British anti-Lewisite. Moving on to other cases of metal poisoning and modern antidotes, we then meet diseases that cause perturbations in metal ion concentrations and find out how to remove and deliver our many essential metals when this occurs.
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