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At the Door of the Loony Gas Building
Category: consumer protection, lead, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged Alexander Gettler, Charles Kettering, Charles Norris, Dupont, Jr., lead poisoning, leaded gasoline, loony gas, New York City Medical Examiner's Office, Standard Oil, Tetraethyl Lead, Thomas Midgley
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An Almost Perfect Murder
Category: carbon monoxide, methane, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged Alexander Gettler, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, Charles Norris, forensic toxicology, hydrogen, Leah Friendlich, methane, murder, New York City Medical Examiner's Office, Tenement Museum, The Poisoner's Handbook
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A Dazzle in the Bones
Category: radium, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged Alexander Gettler, alpha radiation, dial workers, Harrison S. Martland, New York City Medical Examiner's Office, radiation exposure, radioactivity, radium, Radium Girls, The Poisoner's Handbook, U.S. Radium Corporation
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The Radium Girls
Category: radium, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, Alexander Gettler, Charles Norris, Harrison S. Martland, Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, N.J., New York City Medical Examiner's Office, nuclear, Orange, Pierre Curie, polonium, radioactivity, radium, The Radium Girls, U.S. Radium Corporation, uranium
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