Arsenic - Periodic Table of Videos
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So this sample, it’s a very, very interesting sample; it’s arsenic. So this is quality arsenic. So arsenic used to much more common in the community than it is nowadays. It was used as a pigment in the nineteenth century for green wallpaper contained copper arsenite, because there weren’t any other good green pigments to make the wallpaper. And when the rooms were damp, Victorians didn’t like opening the windows in their rooms, then mould would grow on the wall. And because arsenic is poisonous to most life forms the mould would convert the arsenic into a volatile compound, trimethylarsine, and the trimethylarsine went into the air and several people were killed by the arsenic coming from their wall paper. Now arsenic as we know is very toxic a...
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So this sample, it’s a very, very interesting sample; it’s arsenic. So this is quality arsenic. So arsenic used to much more common in the community than it is nowadays. It was used as a pigment in the nineteenth century for green wallpaper contained copper arsenite, because there weren’t any other good green pigments to make the wallpaper. And when the rooms were damp, Victorians didn’t like opening the windows in their rooms, then mould would grow on the wall. And because arsenic is poisonous to most life forms the mould would convert the arsenic into a volatile compound, trimethylarsine, and the trimethylarsine went into the air and several people were killed by the arsenic coming from their wall paper. Now arsenic as we know is very toxic a...
