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Hargreaves Tony |
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Poisons and Poisonings : Death by Stealth / / Tony Hargreaves |
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Cambridge, England : , : Royal Society of Chemistry, , [2017] |
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©2017 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (254 pages) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Machine generated contents note: ; ch. 1 Primitive Potions and Poisons -- ; 1.1. Ancient Experiments -- ; 1.2. Cleopatra's Cobra -- ; 1.3. Pythagoras' Potions -- ; 1.4. Mithridates' Mad Honey -- ; 1.5. Volcanic Volatiles -- ; 1.6. Arabic Arsenic -- ; 1.7. Monks and Mandrake -- ; 1.8. Renaissance Medicine -- ; 1.9. Parisian Poisoners -- ; 1.10. Father of Forensics -- ; 1.11. Rest Assured -- ; 1.12. Industrial-scale Killing -- ; 1.13. Baby Killers -- ; 1.14. Self-poisoning -- ; 1.15. Pussies, Puppies and Poison -- ; 1.16. Farmers' Fears -- ; 1.17. Gender Favour -- ; ch. 2 Chemical Chaos -- ; 2.1. Dosed to Death -- ; 2.2. Acute or Chronic -- ; 2.3. Soluble Cyanide -- ; 2.4. Inject or Inhale -- ; 2.5. Skin Deep -- ; 2.6. Distribution and Excretion -- ; 2.7. Poisons' Reactions -- ; 2.8. Chelates -- ; 2.9. Sequestering -- ; 2.10. pH Balance -- ; 2.11. Crystallised Kidneys -- ; 2.12. Electrons and Ions -- ; 2.13. Solvent and Solute -- ; 2.14. Block the Blood -- ; 2.15. Toxic Oxide -- ; 2.16. Protein and Ricin -- ; 2.17. Antidotes -- ; ch. 3 Animal and Vegetable -- ; 3.1. Vipers and Venom -- ; 3.2. Puffer Poison -- ; 3.3. Poison Frogs -- ; 3.4. Erection Spider -- ; 3.5. Box Jellyfish -- ; 3.6. Blister Beetle -- ; 3.7. Hot Beetle-spray -- ; 3.8. Malicious Microbes -- ; 3.9. The Black Death -- ; 3.10. In-house Bugs -- ; 3.11. Food Poisoning -- ; 3.12. Canned Corned Beef -- ; 3.13. Offensive Oysters -- ; 3.14. Cooked Ham -- ; 3.15. Food Fraudsters -- ; 3.16. Forensics Finds Foul |
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Food -- ; 3.17. Foul Water -- ; 3.18. Dissolving the Dead -- ; 3.19. Botulinum for Beauty -- ; 3.20. Poisons from Plants -- ; 3.21. Strychnine -- ; 3.22. Aconite -- ; 3.23. Which one for Witches? -- ; 3.24. Puffs of Poison -- ; 3.25. Sherlock's Special Spirit -- ; 3.26. Poison Pellet -- ; 3.27. Lethal Leaves -- ; 3.28. Moulds and Mushrooms -- ; 3.29. Death Cap -- ; 3.30. Mushroom Metals -- ; 3.31. St Anthony's Fire -- ; 3.32. Penicillin -- ; ch. 4 Mineral Matters -- ; 4.1. Ghastly Gases -- ; 4.2. Underground Gases -- ; 4.3. Rotten-egg Gas -- ; 4.4. Metals -- ; 4.5. Arsenic -- ; 4.6. Napoleonic Tonic -- ; 4.7. Perpetual Pills -- ; 4.8. Quicksilver -- ; 4.9. Isaac Newton -- ; 4.10. Minamata Mercury -- ; 4.11. Yorkshire Witch -- ; 4.12. Plumbism and Poison -- ; 4.13. Painters' Poisons -- ; 4.14. Red Lead in Food -- ; 4.15. Evil Ethyl -- ; 4.16. Old Pope's Bones -- ; 4.17. Thallium Cream -- ; 4.18. Sodium Salt -- ; 4.19. Salt and Cyanide -- ; 4.20. Fluoride -- ; 4.21. Extra-terrestrial Toxins -- ; 4.22. Panspermia -- ; ch. 5 Poison or Medicine -- ; 5.1. Shipman Serial Poisoner -- ; 5.2. Marilyn's Barbs -- ; 5.3. Truth Drug and Severed Head -- ; 5.4. Lethal but Legal -- ; 5.5. Pennyroyal -- ; 5.6. Name Your Poison -- ; 5.7. Hooper's Hooch -- ; 5.8. Ethanolic Excretions -- ; 5.9. Food or Fuel -- ; 5.10. Tylenol Tampering -- ; ch. 6 Man-made Menace -- ; 6.1. Cyanide -- ; 6.2. Prussic Poison -- ; 6.3. Mad Monk's Orgy -- ; 6.4. American Gas Chamber -- ; 6.5. Cyanide and a Sedative Cocktail -- ; 6.6. Carbon Monoxide -- ; 6.7. Ten Rillington Place -- ; 6.8. Green Gas Cloud -- ; 6.9. Sarin and Soman -- ; 6.10. Bad Bugs -- ; 6.11. Woolsorter's Disease -- ; 6.12. Phosphorus -- ; 6.13. Acidic Attack -- ; 6.14. Pimlico Poisoning -- ; 6.15. Glue Sniffers -- ; 6.16. Stalin's Warfarin -- ; 6.17. Detergents, Hormones and Plastic -- ; 6.18. Chinese Melamine -- ; 6.19. Screenwash and Antifreeze -- ; 6.20. Phossy Jaw -- ; 6.21. Nitro Nasties -- ; 6.22. Agent Orange -- ; 6.23. Mad Hatters -- ; 6.24. Chimneys and Child Cancer -- ; 6.25. Canaries, Candles and Coal -- ; 6.26. Radioactive Girls -- ; 6.27. Radiation Poisoning -- ; 6.28. Chain Reaction -- ; 6.29. Further Fallout Fears -- ; 6.30. From Fossil to Fissile -- ; 6.31. Dirty Bomb -- ; 6.32. Assassination -- ; 6.33. Vile Volatiles -- ; 6.34. Warming or Dimming -- ; 6.35. Trial, Error and Improvement -- ; ch. 7 From Poison to Prison -- ; 7.1. Body Changes -- ; 7.2. Where's the Body? -- ; 7.3. Trowel or Shovel -- ; 7.4. Grave Facts -- ; 7.5. Instrument Surveys -- ; 7.6. Burnt Bodies and Bones -- ; 7.7. Spontaneous Combustion -- ; 7.8. Death and Decay -- ; 7.9. Brain Death -- ; 7.10. Corpse Chemistry -- ; 7.11. Dry Eyes -- ; 7.12. Livor Mortis to Rigor Mortis -- ; 7.13. Protein Putrefaction -- ; 7.14. Creepy Crawlies from Coffins -- ; 7.15. Metallic Implants -- ; 7.16. Peat Marsh -- ; 7.17. Hide and Seek -- ; 7.18. Grave Wax -- ; 7.19. Dehydrating the Dead -- ; 7.20. Body Farm -- ; 7.21. Every Contact Leaves a Trace -- ; 7.22. Incident Scene -- ; 7.23. Physical Evidence -- ; 7.24. Body Samples -- ; 7.25. Court Appearance -- ; ch. 8 Chemistry Clues and Crime -- ; 8.1. Trace or Bulk Analysis -- ; 8.2. Simple, Rapid Tests -- ; 8.3. Non-destructive Tests -- ; 8.4. Analysis -- ; 8.5. Marsh's Arsenic Test -- ; 8.6. Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) -- ; 8.7. Gas Chromatography (GC) -- ; 8.8. Mass Spectrometry (MS) -- ; 8.9. High-performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) -- ; 8.10. Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS) -- ; 8.11. Infrared Spectroscopy (IR) -- ; 8.12. X-Ray Analysis -- ; 8.13. Neutron Activation Analysis (NAA) -- ; 8.14. DNA and Electrophoresis -- ; 8.15. Spot Tests -- ; 8.16. Roadside Checks -- ; 8.17. Poisoned Air -- ; 8.18. Reconstruction and Simulation -- ; 8.19. What do the Results Mean? -- ; 8.20. Probability -- ; 8.21. Sequence of Events -- ; 8.22. Poisoner Personality -- ; 8.23. Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book will examine poisons, both natural and man-made menaces, |
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and cases based on a particular poison as well as information about how forensic analysis is conducted. |
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