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Poisons

When and how did poison first appear? How can a poison kill, and how can it save lives? And which now banned substances used to be sold with no prescription at any pharmacy 100 years ago?! Host Aleksey Egorov conducts his investigation to get to the truth.

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Егоров Алексей

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Poisons • 2024 • 43 minutes

This chemical element is the most reactive, the most electronegative, the most chemically active, and the most aggressive. It has a bloody history of discovery and a dark reputation— the two-faced god Janus of the chemical world. It is simultaneously vital for health and capable of causing death. What makes fluorine so dangerous? Why can it be indirectly blamed for Mendeleev never receiving the Nobel Prize? And how is this incredibly toxic poison that has claimed many lives used in a vast number of medical drugs?