Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 330 Green Poison
"Miss, what's going on? Don't you like the color of the wallpaper?" The old housekeeper who came over after hearing the news looked at the maids taking off the wallpaper on the wall at Purficott's order, and suddenly showed confusion. The expression on his face was that he didn’t know what was wrong with 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, let alone the 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 what she did.

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.

It will release highly toxic smoke when heated. The arsenic emitted per fifteen square centimeters is enough to poison two adults! If you use it as wallpaper, your life will be too long. "

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 down 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 me 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.

The simpler ones are naturally some sand and gravel, and the more expensive ones may be various gemstones.

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.

In the process they inhale large amounts of lead dust, leading to lead poisoning.

Its main symptoms are abdominal cramps, muscle atrophy, depression, cough and blindness.

However, the texture, opacity and warm tone of lead white made it difficult for painters at the time to give up this wonderful color. Because no pigment could match the luster of lead white, it was used until the 1970s.

Even in Europe and Asia at that time, there was a habit of using lead powder on the face to whiten it.

Various minerals were also highly praised by ancient artists. For example, various natural minerals were ground into powder and used for painting and decoration.

In the original world, in the fourth century BC, humans had 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, and it was not until the 1970s that its use was banned.

But among them, lead white is a color that deserves to be highlighted, not only because of its long history, but also because of its harmfulness.

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 didn't want to die from the so-called "common sense" and "habits" of this era.

It's just that 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 the trap 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, before the industrial revolution, green had always been a very expensive color, and could 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 paints, etc., this pigment is used in almost all places where green is used.

Another similar dye called Paris green was even invented at that time, and it became popular because of its fashion attributes in France at the time.

But the irony is that when the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele invented arsenic green, he already knew the volatilization toxicity of arsenic.

However, he deliberately concealed this fact in order to prevent his patent from being leaked, which caused a large number of people who used and were exposed to arsenic green to die from arsenic poisoning.

Naturally, 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 froze and he rushed to her side and inspected her skirt with his omniscient eye.

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 clothes made with this green dye are poisonous. Wearing them may kill you and those 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 beside her.

Foster also quickly said with a serious expression: "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 Purficott: "It's a pity that I specially wore a skirt today. If I had known it, I would have been wearing a military uniform. Well, at least the military uniforms won’t have this problem, 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, intending to take off her skirt there.

Purficott ordered the maids to quickly remove all the wallpaper on the walls, and then find a place to store them properly until she could handle them 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 empire 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." Perficott said to Befa who was standing aside. He ordered, and also planned to ban all this in the north first.

(End of this chapter)