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

Prolonged exposure to multiple green books can cause low level arsenic poisoning. Long-term exposure can cause changes to the skin, harm to the liver and kidneys and a reduction in red and white blood ...

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.

Green Arrow may have been redefined more than any single superhero in comic book history. Oliver Queen was originally introduced as an archeologist, adventurer, and expert on Native American ...

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.

Arsenic is a daily poison in many parts of the world, such as Bangladesh where soil has high levels of naturally occurring arsenate. Wells drilled willy nilly by well-meaning organizations ended up ...

The emerald green pigment, on the other hand, is highly "friable," meaning that the particles break apart under even small amounts of stress or friction, like rubbing or brushing up against the ...