John Emsley: The Elements of Murder

Cover: 9780192806000 | The Elements of Murder | A History of Poison | John Emsley | Buch

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Beschreibung

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

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2006
Genre:	Chemie , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780192806000
ISBN-10:	0192806009
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Emsley, John
Hersteller:	Hurst & Co.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	196 x 129 x 34 mm
Von/Mit:	John Emsley
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.09.2006
Gewicht:	0,339 kg