Toxic chemicals found in more than 200 books of the nineteenth century: how to recognize "deadly" editions obozrevatel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from obozrevatel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Toxic books are in the news after four arsenic-laced volumes were quarantined from the shelves of France's national library. But how dangerous are theseā¦
19th-century books with green covers contain worrying levels of arsenic, prompting some libraries to remove them from the shelves. Arsenic was combined with copper to create the vivid green.
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