The colour of death – Scheele’s green
Scheele’s green, a pigment based on copper arsenite, gained great popularity in the Victorian era, despite its high toxicity.
Read Moreby Iva Dragun | May 2, 2025
Scheele’s green, a pigment based on copper arsenite, gained great popularity in the Victorian era, despite its high toxicity.
Read Moreby Anđela Jakiša | Jan 3, 2024
Today, chlormethine is a cure for cancer – a hundred years ago, it was chemical warfare. What took this chemical from war to a cure?
Read Moreby Antonija Mikačević | Jan 25, 2023
The Finnish physician Erik Adolf von Willebrand made the greatest contribution in the field of hematology and coagulation and resulted with a disease and a factor named after him. What exactly is von Willebrand factor and how was it discovered?
Read Moreby Antonija Mikačević | Jan 18, 2023
In the five years of its existence, this potent drug reached a sales figure of four hundred thousand vials, only to be soon withdrawn from the market. What was the danger behind the little vial?
Read Moreby Filip Trbuha | Jan 6, 2023
Nowadays, agar is one of the most important nutrient media in microbiology, and we have a housewife to thank for its discovery.
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