Cacodyl: Chemistry in its element

Published: Jan. 25, 2019, 12:03 p.m.

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It made Robert Bunsen seriously ill, Michael Faraday thought it 'barbaric' to use in battle and even Fritz Haber \\u2013 the 'father of chemical warfare' \\u2013 abandoned it after a fatal accident in his lab. This week, Mike Freemantle tells the story of tetramethyldiarsine, otherwise known as cacodyl.

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