Arsenic
- Arsenic poisoning – BBC news article about the dangers of arsenic poisoning news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/medical_notes/459078.stm
- Arsenic (As) – Lenntech http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/as.htm
- Arsenic and King George III – faculty.washington.edu/chudler/george.html
- Arsenic – Health World fact sheet on arsenic http://www.healthy.net/scr/article.asp?pageType=article&Id=2004#rice
Lead
- Lead poisoning – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences facts about lead www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lead.htm
- Childhood lead poisoning – www.idph.state.il.us/public/hb/hblead.htm
- Lead: chemical properties, health and environmental effects – Lead fact sheet www.lenntech.com/Periodic-chart-elements/Pb-en.htm
- http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Elements-Toxic/Lead-history.htm – History of lead poisoning
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002473.htm – Lead poisoning
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071120111526.htm – Lead poisoning article
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14691338/from/RS.5/ – Lead poisoning in China
Mercury
- http://www.buzzle.com/articles/mercury-poisoning-symptoms.html – Mercury poisoning
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002476.htm – Mercury poisoning
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/271598.stm – Mercury poisoning in the Amazon
- Mercury – US Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/hg/effects.htm
Radium
- Radium – information about the element www.radiochemistry.org/periodictable/elements/88.html
- Marie Curie (1867-1934): On the discovery of radium – Marie Curie’s writing about her discovery of radium – www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/curie-radium.html
- Watch dial painters – a brief article about female workers who painted with radium www.scc.rutgers.edu/njwomenshistory/Period_5/radiumdial.htm
- Are you curious about Madame Curie – Marie Curie information (be sure to look at all three pages!) – hypatiamaze.org/curiforkids/curie_kids.html
- http://www.sff.net/people/lucy-snyder/brain/2005/06/radium-poisoning.html – Radium poisoning
- http://www.lenntech.com/Periodic-chart-elements/Ra-en.htm – Radium
Radon
- Protecting your family is easy… – Radon awareness website – www.radonawareness.org/
- Radon – Radon fact sheet – www.radiochemistry.org/periodictable/elements/86.html
- Radon gas – Radon poisoning article from World Now ww3.komotv.com/global/story.asp?s=1230806
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4113765.stm – Radon gas article
Chromium-6
- ToxFAQs for Chromium – CDC website about Chromium – www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts7.html
- Toxic chemical creeping toward Colorado River – a chromium poisoning event in California www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=14763
- /wp-content/uploads/legacy_assets/jefferson/f3ffb0d4c1-chromiumfaq.pdf – Chromium poisoning
Uranium
- Uranium – fact sheet on uranium – www.radiochemistry.org/periodictable/elements/92.html
- Uranium: chemical properties, health and environmental effects – www.lenntech.com/Periodic-chart-elements/U-en.htm
- Iraqi cancers, birth effects blamed on U.S. depleted uranium – article about uranium poisoning from Seattle Post Intelligencer – seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/95178_du12.shtml
- http://healthvermont.gov/enviro/rad/Uranium.aspx – Uranium
Plutonium
- http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/rf/plutoniu.htm – Health risks of plutonium
- http://www.lenntech.com/Periodic-chart-elements/Pu-en.htm – General information and health effects
Thorium
- http://www.epa.gov/superfund/health/contaminants/radiation/pdfs/thorium.pdf
- http://www.evs.anl.gov/pub/doc/Thorium.pdf
- http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/phs/phs.asp?id=658&tid=121
- http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/th/Thorium
Cyanide
- http://www.cyanidecode.org/cyanide_environmental.php
- http://www.health.state.ny.us/environmental/emergency/chemical_terrorism/cyanide_general.htm
- http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/147726/cyanide-poisoning
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