Chemistry's dark side
London Regional Group: Event preview: Meeting most foul
 An enlightening, if not a
little macabre, evening is in
store at SCI International Headquarters
on 19 September. Discussions
at the London Regional Group
meeting, Elements of Murder: The Darker Side of the Periodic Table will centre on murder
and, specifically, the use of poisons.
John Emsley (pictured, right, with Dr John Beacham) will take delegates
through chemical
elements that are inherently
toxic and which for centuries
insidiously affected human
affairs by their widespread use
in dispatching unwanted individuals.
Arsenic, antimony,
mercury, lead and thallium are
the most infamous of these,
and all have the dark past.
Indeed some continue to haunt
us.
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