Home textbooks The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison. The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison. Add to cart Buy Now Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different. The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison by John Emsley. Used; hardcover; Condition Used; Good ISBN 10 ISBN 13 · This book is about elements that kill. Mercury, arsenic, antimony, lead, and thallium can be lethal, as many a poisoner knew too well. Emsley explores the gruesome history of /5(7). · The Elements of Murder A History of Poison John Emsley. Emsley offers here a fascinating account of five of the most toxic elements--arsenic, antimony, lead, mercury, and thallium--describing their lethal chemical properties and highlighting their use in some of the most famous murder cases in history.
The Elements of Murder.: This book is about elements that kill. Mercury, arsenic, antimony, lead, and thallium can be lethal, as many a poisoner knew too well. Emsley explores the gruesome history of these elements and those who have succumbed to them in a fascinating narrative that weaves together stories of true crime, enduring historical. In The Elements of Murder, John Emsley answers these questions and offers a fascinating account of five of the most toxic elements—arsenic, antimony, lead, mercury, and thallium—describing their lethal chemical properties and highlighting their use in some of the most famous murder cases in history. Emsley J () The Elements (Oxford Chemistry Guides). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; Emsley J () The 13th Element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus. New York, NY, USA: John Wiley Sons; Emsley J () The Shocking History of Phosphorus: A Biography of the Devil's Element. London, UK: Macmillan.
The Elements of Murder - John Emsley - A fascinating account of the five most toxic elements describes the lethal chemical properties of arsenic, antimony, lead, mercury, and thallium, as well as their use in some of the most famous murder cases in history. The answer to this riddle is The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison. Most people would think that a book about the toxicity of the elements arsenic, antimony, mercury, lead and thallium would be fairly heavy going, but this book reads more. The book gives a great deal of information on the history of the use of these materials, the concentrations of toxic metals in the human body and in a variety of foods, and the effects of these elements on the body. The elements of murder: A history of poison is a book of pages, full of detail, full of chemistry, but in small print and lacking illustration. Emsley concentrates on just five elements, mercury, arsenic, antimony, lead and thallium, the compounds of which are poisonous, There is a final section on other poisonous elements.
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