Chemical Laboratory - Test for Arsenic 1846
A scientist performing a Marsh test, to determine whether a young child was murdered by arsenic. The close end of a glass tube is heated till red heat was produced, followed that a dark stain, indicating the presence of metallic arsenic, making its appearance a little above the flame of the lamp
Picture No
10210958
Media ID
47409503
Size
6533px x 3505px
(3.6MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Engraving in The Pictorial Times', 14 February 1846, page 101
Date
1846
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