About the tragic fall of Fredrick Accum, the continuing importance of his work, and how things stand with food adulteration today
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Death in a Pot: From England’s Famous Chemist to Exiled and Forgotten – Part 2
Let us take a closer look at the book about simple methods for detecting adulterations of food, published by Fredrick Accum in 1820
Death in a Pot: From England’s Famous Chemist to Exiled and Forgotten
Why did Fredrick Accum’s 1820 book about simple methods for detecting the adulteration of foods not make him a pioneer of consumer protection?
Who is Nature’s Biggest Stinker? – Part 2
🦨 What's in skunk spray? We continue on the fascinating journey of discovery to understand this highly complex natural substance and masterpiece of sulfur chemistry
Who is Nature’s Biggest Stinker?
The striped skunk’s secretion is a highly complex natural substance and a masterpiece of sulfur chemistry
Absinthe: The Magic of the Green Fairy – Part 3
How toxic is thujone and how much of it is absorbed when drinking?
Absinthe: The Magic of the Green Fairy – Part 2
Self-experimentation, a possible molecular formula in the search for the Green Fairy, and the right way to drink absinthe
Absinthe: The Magic of the Green Fairy – Part 1
When drinking modern absinthe, is there still a chance of getting a kiss from the Green Fairy like the Bohemian Parisians at the end of the 19th century?
The Amazing Chemical Survival Strategy of a Moth – Part 2
Nine-hour copulation and exciting chemistry – The little woolly bear Utetheisa ornatrix is a chemical survival artist
The Amazing Chemical Survival Strategy of a Moth – Part 1
The secret: the right diet from the start, rigorous sex, and a good helping of chemistry