Chapter 330 Green Poison
"Miss, what's going on? Don't you like the color of the wallpaper?" The old housekeeper who came after hearing the news looked at the maids who were following Purficott's orders. He took off the wallpaper on the wall and suddenly showed a puzzled expression, wondering what happened to his young lady.
Princess Anne on the side also showed doubts, but she had no intention of stopping Perfectcott.
This is her lord's mansion, not to mention it's just wallpaper. Even if she wants to tear it down now, it's just as she pleases.
The only thing that Princess Anne cares about may be why Purficott did this.
Faced with the puzzled looks of the two people, Purficott explained: "This kind of wallpaper is poisonous because its color is made from an arsenic compound called copper arsenite.
After it is heated, it will release highly toxic smoke. The arsenic emitted per fifteen square centimeters is enough to poison two adults! Using it as wallpaper is simply too long for your life. "
The reason why Purficott knew this, in addition to the memory from the original world, was also because she had just checked the wallpaper she had taken off with her omniscient eye.
Originally, she was only suspicious because of the bright green color of the wallpaper, but the identification results of the All-Seeing Eye undoubtedly gave her sufficient evidence.
The beautiful green wallpaper in front of you is exactly the poisonous color popular in the original world in the 18th century - arsenic green.
As everyone knows, in the ancient times when there were no artificial pigments, various colors were obtained from natural minerals or plant juices. For example, the famous beige made from snail secretions is an extremely valuable natural fuel.
All kinds of minerals were also highly praised by ancient artists. For example, various natural minerals were ground into powder and used for painting and decoration.
The simpler ones are naturally some sand and gravel, and the more expensive ones may be various gemstones.
Among them, lead white is a color worthy of being highlighted, not only because of its long history, but also because of its harmfulness.
In the original world, in the fourth century BC, humans had already begun to use lead to make white pigments. The process of using this color continued for a long time in the reproduction and inheritance of many cultures until it was banned in the 1970s. use.
Even until the 19th century, lead white was the only choice for white oil and tempera paints. In order to obtain high-quality white, artists at that time would even grind lead into fine enough powder themselves.
During this process they will inhale large amounts of lead dust, leading to lead poisoning.
The main symptoms are abdominal cramps, muscle atrophy, depression, cough and blindness.
But the texture, opacity and warm tone of lead white made it difficult for painters at that time to give up this wonderful color. Because no pigment could match the luster of lead white, it was used until now. 1970s.
Even in Europe and Asia at that time, there was a habit of using lead powder on the face to whiten it.
When Perfectcott first traveled through time, there was this kind of lead powder for makeup on her dressing table, which really frightened her and she thought someone was trying to kill her.
This was one of the reasons why she fired all the maids at the time. After all, she did not want to die from the so-called "common sense" and "habits" of this era.
But she didn't expect that she was far away from the empire, but she still encountered something like this that made her face bloody.
If she hadn't noticed the abnormality of the green wallpaper on the wall, I'm afraid she would have fallen into trouble and suffered arsenic poisoning due to inhaling excessive arsenic this winter, and received the same treatment as Napoleon. Unlike lead white, which has a long history, arsenic green is a technology that only emerged after the development of the chemical discipline after humans entered the industrial age.
Before this, green was a color that was easy to obtain but difficult to preserve. It could easily fade or lose its original luster.
Therefore, green has always been a very expensive color before the industrial revolution. It can only be used by people from the middle class and above, such as nobles and businessmen.
In the original world, a Swedish chemist in the 18th century discovered that dyes made of copper arsenite were bright and beautiful, and the cost was quite low, so they were widely used once they were invented.
From clothes, toys, to fabrics, wallpapers, painting pigments, etc., this pigment is used in almost all places where green is used.
At that time, another similar dye was even invented called Paris Green, which became popular because of its fashion attributes in France at that time.
But the irony is that when the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele invented arsenic green, he already knew the volatilization toxicity of arsenic.
But in order to keep his patent secret from being leaked, he deliberately concealed this fact, which caused a large number of people who used and were exposed to arsenic green to die from arsenic poisoning at that time.
Of course this includes the famous French Emperor Napoleon, as well as a large number of ordinary people who are exposed to arsenic green.
Thinking of this, Purficott looked at Princess Anne and saw that she was wearing a green skirt today. His eyes immediately focused and he rushed to her side and examined her with his omniscient eye. skirt.
The result was naturally not beyond Purficott's expectations. She hurriedly said to Princess Anne: "Auntie Anne, take off this skirt on your body quickly. All the clothes made with this green dye Clothes are poisonous and may kill you and the people around you at any time
Believe me, the arsenic emitted by such a skirt is enough to poison six people.
Compared with it, poisoning, assassination and assassination are inefficient behaviors. "
Hearing what Purficott said, Princess Anne had no doubt at all and quickly looked at the old housekeeper aside.
And Foster also quickly said with a serious look: " Your Highness, please move to the dressing room. I will prepare clean and safe clothes for you immediately. ”
“Thank you! Princess Anne breathed a sigh of relief, but at this time she still maintained her demeanor and was still in the mood to joke to Purfict: "It's a pity that I wore a skirt today. If I had known, I would have been wearing military uniforms, at least military uniforms There won't be any problems in this regard, the empire's military uniforms are all red. ”
After saying that, Princess Anne walked towards the cloakroom of the Lord's Mansion under the guidance of the old housekeeper, planning to take off her skirt there.
Perfect ordered the maids to quickly remove all the wallpaper on the walls, and then find a place to store it properly until she could handle it personally.
These things cannot be set on fire, because doing so would be no different from poisoning.
"Befa, help me send a telegram to the imperial center, requesting a complete ban on the use of this color fuel, and prohibiting anyone from using copper arsenite as a raw material for dyes." Perfico Te ordered Beifa on the side, and also planned to ban all this in the north first.
(End of this chapter)