Public health experts estimate that more than 200 million people worldwide are exposed to arsenic through contaminated drinking water. Scientists know long-term exposure to arsenic is associated with increased risk of chronic illnesses like cancer and…
This is a 1974 photo from my first lab, with Canada Fisheries in Newfoundland, Canada. We were measuring arsenic in water, fish tissue, sediments, etc, by distillation of arsine into a solution of diethyldithiocarbamate in pyridine.…