So you are worried about aspartame or a little Red #3 in your food? You know what you would have to worry about back in the early years of the 19th聽century? A little strychnine in the beer.聽聽A...
I must admit I鈥檓 not sure if the woman is just an intellectual simpleton or a clever charlatan preying on the gullible.聽聽I suspect the former.聽聽In any case, here is the story.聽聽Upon invitation, and...
Like most chemists, I like to cook.聽聽After all, what is cooking but the appropriate mixing of chemicals?聽聽In the lab we use flasks and beakers, but how do we equip our kitchen?聽聽Tiffany's in New...
The common word in French for dental fillings is 鈥減lombage鈥�, which may sound a little surprising since it roughly translates to 鈥渢o fill with lead鈥�.聽That is because if you had a cavity in France in...
It鈥檚 probably not news to anyone reading this that lead exposure is dangerous, but when most of us think of routes to lead exposure we think of leaded gasoline, paints, drinking water or pencils ...
Pencils do not contain any lead, and they never did! The mistake in terminology can be traced back to the ancient Romans who drew lines on papyrus using pieces of actual lead, all the while not...
Glass is made by heating sand and then allowing it to cool down. Sand, or silicon dioxide, has a highly ordered arrangement of its silicon and oxygen atoms. In other words, it has a well-defined...
It鈥檚 hard for us here in North America to believe that gold is killing hundreds of children in Nigeria. Well, it isn鈥檛 exactly the gold that is killing them, it is the lead oxide and lead carbonate...
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