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Cacodyl: Chemistry in its element

Cacodyl: Chemistry in its element

Chemistry in its element

January 25, 20196m 45s

Show Notes

It made Robert Bunsen seriously ill, Michael Faraday thought it 'barbaric' to use in battle and even Fritz Haber – the 'father of chemical warfare' – abandoned it after a fatal accident in his lab. This week, Mike Freemantle tells the story of tetramethyldiarsine, otherwise known as cacodyl.