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Chemistry World
November 27, 2006 |
Q&A: Polonium-210 Polonium-210 is reported to have caused the recent fatal poisoning of former Russian spy, Alexander Litvinenko. Here's an interview with John Emsley, author of Elements of Murder: A History of Poison, about polonium-210 poisoning.   |
Chemistry World
March 27, 2015
Adam Brownsell |
Chemistry uncovered In this issue we talk about an environ of chemistry that has courted shadows and has been wielded by those who much prefer their work to go unnoticed: poisons. |
Popular Mechanics
November 30, 2006
Simon Cooper |
Experts: Radiation Risk from Spy Death Minimal (Unless You're a Spy) Since investigators discovered traces of radiation on three British Airways jets yesterday and expanded their search today, the public health scare caused by the radiation poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in London has exploded into a mini-hysteria that experts say is largely overblown. |
Chemistry World
October 1, 2015
Vicki Marshall |
A is for arsenic: the poisons of Agatha Christie Few people are likely to have thought about how the poisons work in Agatha Christie's stories. A is for arsenic investigates the science behind the fiction. |
Chemistry World
July 2011
Philip Ball |
Column: The Crucible How principled was William Morris? |
Chemistry World
September 18, 2012
Andy Extance |
UK university lab shut after student poisoning Police say that they are 'investigating all scenarios' after a University of Southampton PhD student was taken to hospital with highly toxic thallium and arsenic species in their body. Thallium salts have long been used in malicious poisonings thanks to their flavourless, colorless nature. |
Chemistry World
July 20, 2007
Victoria Gill |
Polonium Clean-up Leaves Trail of Destruction In November 2006 of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned with radioactive polonium-210. Fifty locations around London have been deemed to be contaminated by the now infamous isotope. |
Chemistry World
July 21, 2006
Maria Burke |
Sourcing Bangladesh's Arsenic Arsenic contaminates millions of people's drinking water in West Bengal and Bangladesh, but scientists now think they might have figured out how the toxic element gets into the water in the first place. |
Chemistry World
April 8, 2010
Simon Hadlington |
Arsenic anticancer target revealed Researchers from China and France believe they have uncovered the molecular mechanism by which arsenic trioxide kills certain cancer cells. |
