Edinburgh lead poisoning
Your name:
Esther Godfrey
Entry:
When I was about six (so about 1978) my mother made a television film for a current affairs programme about the high levels of lead in the water in Edinburgh, where we lived - the lead poisoning wa
Pigment Analysis by Optical Polarising Light Microscopy
Your name:
Ruth Siddall
Entry:
Object Retrieval: Enamel-painted toy car; c. 1960-63
Eating Molten Lead
Entry:
Martial arts footage from Mount Dobong, South Korea - where a man eats molten lead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q40v8qeUJZQ
metal tolerant plants
Entry:
Around lead mines in the peak district, where for two hundred years up to 1780, the Peak was the most important lead mining area in the world, only plants that can tolerate lead managed to survive
bigger atoms are not necesserily better
Your name:
Andrew Verra
Entry:
The fear of nuclear power is mainly driven by the fear of its long lasting danger to human health.
Lead: The Final State
Your name:
Alexander Radovic
Entry:
In many ways the flow and energy of matter in the universe, not least of all our own temporal frames, are driven by the constant cycle of fusion and fission at the heart of every star.
Lead in the Roman atmosphere
Your name:
Desmond Campbell
Entry:
Scientists found in Greenland ice cores a peak in lead in the atmosphere in Roman times which they think was due to Roman industrial activity.
Unlikely Evidence
Entry:
Obviously highly unlikely that there was enough lead in the toy to cause the problem. Should look at other sources of lead. Look at common things such as paint.
Memories of Lead Toys
Your name:
Joe Chick
Entry:
This object reminded me of some possibly lead toys I had when I was a child. They had been my dad's toys back from the 1950s before people knew of the risks of lead.
The periodic table and other uses for the letters Pb.
Entry:
Pb is the symbol for lead in the periodic table.
