Arsenic Adams

Henry Adams) he found himself invariably taking for granted, as a political instinct, with out waiting further experiment, - as he took for granted that arsenic poisoned, - the rule that a friend in power is a friend lost. 

Adams CO, Samat BG. 1940. Effects of yellow phosphorus and arsenic trioxide on growing bones and growing teeth. Arch Pathol 30 1192-1202. 

Van Cleuvenbergen, R.J.A., Van Mol, W.E. and Adams, F.C. (1988) Arsenic speciation in water by hydride cold trapping furnace atomic absorption spectrometry an evaluation. J. Anal. Atom. Spectrom., 3, 169-176. 

Pakistan, India and China were among several states that adamantly disclaimed a chemical weapons capability before joining the CWC, but India and China have now opened their chemical weapons programmes to the scrutiny of inspectors following the CWC s activation. The CWC differentiated between two different types of offensive capabilities poison gas arsenals and production facilities. India and South Korea declared both chemical weapons plants and stockpiles. Two other countries also made the same declarations, the United States and Russia, which were known chemical weapons possessors before the CWC entered into... 

Embryonic age Neural tube defects from retinoic acid, arsenic, and valproic acid (Adams, 1993 Bennett Finnell, 1998) Decreased fertility in female rats exposed to dioxin (TCDD) (Gray Ostby, 1995) Hydronephrosis with dioxin exposure during embryonic or fetal periods in rats (Couture-Haws et al., 1991 Bimbaum, 1995) ... 

Exposure to retinoic acid, methylnitrosourea, and clomiphene during the early embryonic period, prior to the induction of the neural plate (before day 18 in the human), results in an increased incidence of neural tube defects and other malformations in experimental animal models (Bennett Finnell, 1998). In addition, exposure of rodents to teratogens such as retinoic acid, arsenic, and valproic acid during the period of neurulation results in neural tube defects such as spina bifida and encephaloceles (Adams Lammer, 1993 Bennett Finnell, 1998). Of these, therapeutic use of... 

Adams JH, Haller L, Boa FY et al (1986) Human African trypanosomiasis (T.b. gambiense) a study of 16 fatal cases of sleeping sickness with some observations on acute reactive arsenical encephalopathy. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 12 81-94... 

The husband is called Lead, Mars. The wife is called Venus and Arsenic. The husband is also the wife, and the wife is also the husband, like Eve. The sleeping man lost his ribs. However, he is not glorified, because he does not die. After death, in the resurrection is he glorified. So also is it the case with our Adam. Even in his first sleep Eve is given him. Afterwards, in the second solution he dies, and he arises gloriously. Then Eve can never moree be torn from him (S. Temesius). The father is the calcination the mother is the solution the fountain is its mother. And he is yet older than the fountain, because he is born perfect. For that which is perfect is before that which is imperfect. But there is in Mercury that which is desired by Philosophers. 

Adams, Private communication Raiziss and Gavron, Organic Arsenical Compounds, New York, 1923, 41. 

True vein deposits of uranium are not very common except perhaps in Europe. Uranium in such deposits commonly occurs with. . minerals, such as tin, copper, cobalt, vanadium and arsenic. .. (Bowie, 1972, p. 3). In Europe, as in the U.S.A. (Walker and Osterwald, 1963), the assemblage commonly includes pyrite and other sulfide minerals. Moreover, there is an association of metals in veins which is significant. Walker and Adams (1963, pp. 76—77) state The positive correlation of certain metals — notably molybdenum, manganese, beryllium, tungsten, vanadium, niobium, yttrium, and zirconium — to uranium in veins seems to be reasonably well-established within some deposits, districts, or restricted geographic areas, but none of these metals can be shown to correlate with uranium in all or even a large percentage of vein deposits. In addition to the metals that, when present, appear to correlate intimately with uranium, many other metals such as lead, zinc, copper, silver, and cobalt are associated with uranium in many... 

Of the more important organic arsenic compounds, the iron-ammonium salt of metylarsonic acid (19), should be mentioned. It is miscible in water and stable in alkaline medium, but is decomposed by acids (acute oral ld,q= 1000 mg/kg). It is prepared by reacting sodium arsenite (20) with methyl iodide (21), and converting the disodium salt obtained (22) into iron-ammonium salt (Quick and Adams, 1922). 0... 

Quick, Adams, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 44, 809 (1922). The di-sodium salt is easily prepd by treating sodium arsenite with dimethyl sulfate at 85 Uhlinger, Cook, Ind. Eng. Chem. 11, 105 (1919). Other routes are by the reaction of methyl chloride with sodium arsonate under pressure Miller et al, U.S. pat. 2,442,372 (1948) by the reaction of dimethyl sulfate with a solution of arsenic trioxide in sodium hydroxide Schwerdle, U.S. pat. 2,889,347 (1959). Acute toxicity T. B. Gaines, R. E. Linder, Eundam. Appl. Toxicol 7, 299 (1986). 

Most dietary arsenic originates from fish, shellfish, and seaweed products. On the basis of the U.S. Food and Drug Administtation (FDA) Total Diet Study for Market Baskets collected from 1990 through 1991, Adams et al. (54) estimated that food conttibuted 93% of the total daily intake of arsenic, with seafood accounting for 90%. The major arsenic species found in the fish and shellfish that are usually eaten is arsenobetaine (AB), a ubiquitous major arsenic species... 

MA Adams, PM Bolger, EL Gunderson. Dietary intake and hazards of arsenic. In WR Chappell, CO Abernathy, CR Cothern, eds. Arsenic Exposure and Health. Northwood, UK Science and Technology Letters, 1994, pp 41-49. 

Adams RM (1990) Glaziers. In Adams RM (ed) Occupational skin disease. WB Saunders, Philadelphia, pp 628-629 Barbaud A, MougeoUe JM, Schmutz JL (1995) Contact hypersensitivity to arsenic in a crystal factory worker. Contact Dermatitis 33 272... 

Dill KR, Adams ER, O Connor RJ, McGown EL (1989) Structure and dynamics of a lipoic acid-arsenical adduct. Chem Res Toxicol 2 181-185 Dill KR, Huang L, Bearden DW, McGown EL, O Connor RJ (1991) Activation energies and formation rate constants for organic arsenical-antidote adducts as determined by dynamic NMR spectroscopy. Chem Res Toxicol 4 295-299... 

Adamsite was discovered in 1918 by an American chemist Adams (after whom it is named). It was produced on industrial scale in several countries (among others USA, Italy, Great Britain, Germany) until the 1930 s. Its production was given up after development of an industrial method for chloroacetone production. The latter has irritating properties similar to those of Adamsite but lacks the poisonous properties characteristic of arsenic compounds. 

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