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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 8: Metal Medications and Metals Versus Medicines
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Published:06 Dec 2018
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Special Collection: RSC Popular Science eBook CollectionProduct Type: Popular Science
Page range:
121 - 142
Citation
The Rhubarb Connection and Other Revelations: The Everyday World of Metal Ions, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018, pp. 121-142.
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This chapter considers metals as medications, starting with the use of toxic mercury and arsenic to save lives in the days before penicillin. From here we proceed through the murky world of colloidal precious metals, which have no documented effect on anything at all, then on to lithium, which, a long time ago, you might have found lurking in your soda, or failing that, in a salt pan far, far away.
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