St Andrews librarians and physicists partner to create sensor that can detect the spectrum of toxic green colourant ...

The Poison Book Project is working to identify old books that contain toxic pigments like arsenic, which made Victorian-era books in the 1800s more eye-catching. Melissa Tedone is leading the project.

Prolonged exposure to multiple green books can cause low level arsenic poisoning. Long-term exposure can cause changes to the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A portable, low-cost device has been developed to rapidly detect toxic emerald green (arsenic-based) pigments in historic book bindings.