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Toxic books are in the news after four arsenic-laced volumes were quarantined from the shelves of France's national library. But how dangerous are these…
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Toxic books are in the news after four arsenic-laced volumes were quarantined from the shelves of France's national library. But how dangerous are these…
Four arsenic books have been quarantined from the French National Library, but they're in the U.S. too.
19th-century books with green covers contain worrying levels of arsenic, prompting some libraries to remove them from the shelves. Arsenic was combined with copper to create the vivid green.
Book conservationists have launched an effort to locate thousands books containing 'emerald green', a rare and coveted pigment created with the help of arsenic.
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