The anticorrosive coatings industry's most effective corrosion inhibitor - hexavalent chromate - is being banned in the EU and phased out globally due to being carcinogenic. Waterspring Ventures, The ...

Forsyth published a follow-up study last year showing that the percentage of lead-contaminated turmeric samples in Bangladesh markets has since fallen from 47% to zero. Blood lead levels in ...

Vermilion red, created using mercury sulphide, was often found on the inside of books, while yellow dye was often based on ...

A search for poisonous books. As in books with covers so hazardous to human health some libraries are removing them from ...

Both lead and chromium are toxic. But yellow books are less of a concern than green and red. Lead chromate is not ...

One popular pigment was Scheele’s green, named after Carl Wilhelm Scheele, a German-Swedish chemist who in 1775 discovered ...