There is a fast-acting and readily available antidote for certain kinds of heavy metal poisoning, such as Thallium and radioactive isotopes of Caesium. Thallium is a very strange choice to poison a spy, because Prussian Blue is the readily available antidote. Pharmaceutical-grade Prussian Blue (Berlin Blue) absorbs thallium, and the oral dosage is up to twenty grams per day of Prussian blue, The slow-death method by which Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) was being killed was "thallium poisoning". The Wikipedia website states that: "Thallium and its compounds are often highly toxic. Contact with skin is dangerous, and adequate ventilation should be provided when melting this metal. Many thallium compounds are highly soluble in water and are readily absorbed through the skin. Exposure to them should not exceed 0.1 mg per m2 of skin in an eight-hour time-weighted average (forty-hour work week). Thallium is a suspected human carcinogen." This sequence has a basis in fact with the fatal poisoning of ex-K.G.B. Agent Alexander Litvinenko, in a London restaurant, using radioactive polonium.
Scritto da il
05-03-2025 alle ore 07:26
Immagini
Nessun dato in archivio
Consiglia
Voto
Nessun dato in archivio
Commenti
Nessun dato in archivio
