ARSENIC: This is how we DEFEAT the KING of POISONS The Marsh test

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???? Grab an exclusive NordVPN deal here → https://nordvpn.com/reaccionaexplota Nord offers a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you're not taking any risks! ✌ It was the perfect poison for centuries. Terrifying kings and the powerful. Its fame earned it the title of King of Poisons. Until chemist James Marsh came along with a test that would dethrone it forever. 00:00 A deadly poison 00:39 The color of gold 02:13 An ancient poison 03:48 A crucial discovery 06:12 The perfect poison 08:26 The poison of Kings 10:33 An imperfect test 12:36 The definitive test 14:25 The Lafarge case 15:16 A new crown With the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology - Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. Video made at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Girona. No atoms were harmed during the recording of this video. Follow me on social media! Shop ► https://reacciona-explota.myshopify.com/ Instagram ► / pontebata Twitter ► / pontebata Twitch ► / pontebata Tiktok ► / ponte_bata Discord ► / discord Thanks to the people who have offered me their help and talent when making this video: To Álvaro Canto for editing this fantastic video. To Luck Studio for its incredible cover design. Twitter: @Luckstudio_ To Carles Alcaide and Joan Grebor for helping me during the recording of this video. To Alba CeColl for her knowledge of art history. To my dear friend Pedro for helping me with his gift of writing. To Dr Albert Poater, for giving me wings in my madness. To Dr Josep Duran for being the great support and the best thesis director one could wish for. ►Music and sound: Terrain – Splasher Malibu Cruise – Sarah the Illstrumentalist Teahouse Event – SINY Virtuosity – Howard Harper Cribs 64 – Levante Maneas Orange -- SINY Cambodia Rain -- SINY Dansez -- Fasion ►Images and video: Portraits of the protagonists and their discoveries taken from Wikimedia Commons. ►Bibliography: Torregosa, Daniel (2024). The smell of bitter almonds . MenosCuarto Whorton, James (2011). The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play. Oxford University Press, Hughes MF, Beck BD, Chen Y, Lewis AS, Thomas DJ. Arsenic exposure and toxicology: a historical perspective. Toxicol Sci. 2011 Oct;123(2):305-32. doi:10.1093/toxsci/kfr184. Epub 2011 Jul 12. PMID: 21750349; PMCID: PMC3179678. Webster, Stewart. The Development of the Marsh Test. J. Chem. Educ. 1947, 24, 10, 487 Publication Date: October 1, 1947 https://doi.org/10.1021/ed024p487 Emadi A, Gore SD. Arsenic trioxide - An old drug rediscovered. Blood Rev. 2010 Jul-Sep. 24(4-5):191-9. Lo-Coco F, Cicconi L, Breccia M. Current standard treatment of adult acute promyelocytic leukaemia. Br J Haematol. 2016 Mar. 172 (6):841-54. The gentle art of poisoning, Meek, WJ, JAMA. 158:335-339 (1955). Toxicology, The Basic Science of Poisons, 5th ed. Klaassen, CD. Casarett and Doull, McGraw-Hill, NY, 1996

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