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The Elements of Murder
A History of Poison
Taschenbuch von John Emsley
Sprache: Englisch

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Emsley 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 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.
Über den Autor
John Emsley won the Science Book prize in 1995 for his Consumer's Good Chemical Guide, and followed this with a series of popular science books: Molecules at an Exhibition, Was it Something You Ate? (co-authored with Peter Fell), The Shocking History of Phosphorus, Nature's Building Blocks, and Vanity, Vitality, and Virility, all of which have been translated worldwide.
John spent 20 years as a researcher and lecturer in chemistry at London University before becoming a freelance popular-science writer and a Science Writer in Residence, first at Imperial College London and then in the Chemistry Department of the University of Cambridge. In 2003 he was awarded the German Chemical Society's Writer's Award.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: Deadly elements

  • 2: The history and the chemistry

  • 3: One man's medicine is another man's murder weapon

  • 4: Arsenic and adultry

  • 5: Off the wall poison

  • 6: Insidious antimony

  • 7: Requiem for a metal

  • 8: Deadly lead

  • 9: When the Empire struck lead

  • 10: Mercury in the Tower

  • 11: Mad cats and mad hatters

  • 12: Young and deadly

  • 13: Driving you hairless

  • Glossary

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Genre: Chemie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 432
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780192806000
ISBN-10: 0192806009
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Emsley, John
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 196 x 129 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: John Emsley
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.07.2006
Gewicht: 0,339 kg
preigu-id: 102216351
Über den Autor
John Emsley won the Science Book prize in 1995 for his Consumer's Good Chemical Guide, and followed this with a series of popular science books: Molecules at an Exhibition, Was it Something You Ate? (co-authored with Peter Fell), The Shocking History of Phosphorus, Nature's Building Blocks, and Vanity, Vitality, and Virility, all of which have been translated worldwide.
John spent 20 years as a researcher and lecturer in chemistry at London University before becoming a freelance popular-science writer and a Science Writer in Residence, first at Imperial College London and then in the Chemistry Department of the University of Cambridge. In 2003 he was awarded the German Chemical Society's Writer's Award.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 1: Deadly elements

  • 2: The history and the chemistry

  • 3: One man's medicine is another man's murder weapon

  • 4: Arsenic and adultry

  • 5: Off the wall poison

  • 6: Insidious antimony

  • 7: Requiem for a metal

  • 8: Deadly lead

  • 9: When the Empire struck lead

  • 10: Mercury in the Tower

  • 11: Mad cats and mad hatters

  • 12: Young and deadly

  • 13: Driving you hairless

  • Glossary

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Genre: Chemie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 432
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780192806000
ISBN-10: 0192806009
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Emsley, John
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 196 x 129 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: John Emsley
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.07.2006
Gewicht: 0,339 kg
preigu-id: 102216351
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