Exempel på arsenic

• All of Mary’s victims apparently died from stomach illnesses, but in fact this condition has very similar symptoms to the deadly poison arsenic. 

• Arsenic could be used secretly and provided very little in the way of evidence. 

• By the 8th century CE, Arabian doctors had found ways to produce arsenic so that it was clear and had little smell, making it almost unnoticeable and very popular. 

• In the 19th century, arsenic was freely available and was often used as a cleaning product. 

• People said that Lucrezia Borgia kept arsenic in a special ring. 

• Substances like arsenic were commonly found in rat poison, cosmetics that women used, and cleaning products. 

• With her back turned, she opened the ring and secretly poured the arsenic into her victims’ drinks. 

• Results were obtained for arsenic, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, nickel, and zinc.

• It gave off great clouds of toxic smoke, heavy with sulphurous acid gas and tinged with arsenic.

• The heavy metals in the ash included arsenic, cadmium, chromium, manganese, nickel, cobalt, copper, zinc, and lead.

• As a consequence, the produced white arsenic a#ects red copper by turning it into the white alloy of copper-arsenic.

• There were burns that contained wood that did not have high arsenic, chromium, and copper readings (burns 11, 12, 14, 15, and 19).

• Second, elemental arsenic does not combust with copper in alloying as in the case of arsenic sulfide.

• The highest readings of arsenic, chromium, and copper all occurred when wood was present.

• Further correlations existed between heavy metals in the ash for: arsenic and chromium; and arsenic and manganese.

• When entered as dummies, arsenic levels increase slightly and then decrease with democratic freedoms.

• When freedoms are entered in linear form, an increase in democratic freedoms reduces arsenic concentrations.

• The executive orders created national monuments, for example, while the regulations ranged from workplace rules to limits on arsenic in drinking water.

• Oxidation of pyrites releases strong sulphuric acid resulting in the dissolution of arsenic-bearing minerals.

• This is of particular interest since arsenic is known to affect signal transduction pathways at nontoxic levels.

• The weak link between copper and both arsenic and chromium suggests that copper is also present in other sources of waste.