Chemical thought to be in emerald green covers of four 19th-century books identified by Poison Book Project
The library said handling the books would probably cause only minor harm but it was taking them away for further analysis.The library said handling the books would probably cause only minor harm but it was taking them away for further analysis.France’s national library has removed four 19th-century books from its shelves whose emerald green covers are believed to be laced with arsenic.
“We have put these works in quarantine and an external laboratory will analyse them to evaluate how much arsenic is present in each volume,” it said. Testing hundreds of book covers for heavy metals since 2019, researchers at the University of Delaware have drawn up a list of potentially dangerous volumes as part of the
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