The chemicals as friends and foes
In The Poison Paradox, toxicologist John Timbrell explores the dark side of chemistry - how the chemicals that we use and that occur all around us can often be beneficial and yet under other circumstances can become poisons. By examining a variety of cases, from tragic disasters such as Bhopal and...
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Oxford,New York
Oxford University Press
2008
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| Institutions: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh |
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| Summary: | In The Poison Paradox, toxicologist John Timbrell explores the dark side of chemistry - how the chemicals that we use and that occur all around us can often be beneficial and yet under other circumstances can become poisons. By examining a variety of cases, from tragic disasters such as Bhopal and Minamata Bay, to the plant fungus which led to the Salem witch trials, and the puffer fish which is at once deadly poisonous and prized as a delicacy, this book explores the science of poisons: the different ways in which they harm us, and how they may be counteracted |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 348 p. ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0199548161 9780199548163 |