Sex, drugs, rocks, gold, murder, war, mass poisonings, the deaths of Napoleon, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, and others are all linked by one element - arsenic! Arsenic has been around since the beginning of time and the word has become a metaphor for poison with associated shock value. …
The book covers the huge variety of ways in which the ubiquitous element arsenic and its compounds have influenced the lives of people worldwide.
"Up until now, there has been no book that covers arsenic with such breadth. This book is a general appreciation of how much the element, arsenic, has become part of our lives. Written in an entertaining style, it covers the years 1000 BC to the present day. The coverage of the …
The book covers the huge variety of ways in which the ubiquitous element arsenic and its compounds have influenced the lives of people worldwide.
A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents of warfare modern invent…
Access to clean drinking water is a basic human right, yet hundreds of millions of people around the planet are unfortunately forced to drink contaminated waters. Arsenic contaminated drinking water is responsible for the largest global mass poisoning in history in India and Ban…
Arsenic (As) is a poison historically used to great effect before modern detection methods rendered it obsolete. However, the largest mass poisoning in human history occurred due to groundwater in the Bengal Basin contaminated by natural sources of As. Since that time, research …
Arsenic (As) is a global contaminant listed as the highest priority pollutant on the Substance Priority List by the ATSDR. The primary route of exposure is by ingestion of water and food. The World Health Organization (WHO) describes environmental exposure to arsenic as the larg…
Arsenic (As) is a poisonous metalloid that is persistent in many soils and aquifers worldwide. This element has a high affinity for iron (Fe) and sulfur (S) minerals, and in anoxic environments As is thought to be mobilised through the oxidation and reduction of these minerals, …
Elevated levels of arsenic (As) in soils and water around the world are both a significant human health and environmental hazard. With increasing global water demands, there is a requirement to further the understanding of the biogeochemical cycling of As from soils and sediment…
It is estimated that over 30 million people are exposed to arsenic from drinking contaminated groundwater in Bangladesh. Furthermore, due to the use of contaminated water for irrigation purposes, arsenic and other toxic elements are entering the food chain of Bangladeshis. In th…
Over a hundred million people across the globe, and particularly in Asia, are chronicallyexposed to high concentrations (>10 ppb) of geogenic arsenic (As) in shallow reducinggroundwaters utilised as drinking water. It is widely accepted that As mobilisation fromsediments into th…
The contamination of groundwater by naturally occurring arsenic (As) in South and South East Asia has resulted in the exposure of an estimated 100 million people to hazardously high concentrations of this known carcinogen. Whilst the biogeochemical processes and mechanisms respo…
This book presents the most up-to-date summary of environmental arsenic problems worldwide, containing new reports on arsenic exposure in Thailand, Mongolia and China. It also presents papers on the arsenic problems in Central Europe, Asia and the USA. There are chapters describ…
For more than a century, a large volume of gold-mining tailings was deposited in Whitewood Creek and the Belle Fourche River, tributaries to the Cheyenne River in western South Dakota. Much of it still remains, and field and historical evidence indicates continued remobilization…