Friday, July 20, 2012

Green Toxic

In 1859 a chemist discovered that there is toxic in the green arsenic used to make things green. People saw green as a cheerful color and painted there walls green., but they suddenly got warnings of the dangerous green objects they have at home. Toys were colored with this green toxic and so were many other things.Workers who made things green sometimes got the green materials in their fingertips. Matilda, a worker, ate food with her arsenic covered fingertips and started to vomit nonstop.Her vomit was green. One day she had a vomiting attack and went to the doctor. Before she died, she said that everything looked green. In the 1850s fake flowers and fruits on head wear was popular to women. A little girl died because she sucked on the fake green grapes on a hat. When mothers say that their child's tummy hurt because he/she ate to much candy, it is not true! The wrapper has toxic which touches the candy and delivers the toxic. Vegetable are green but they don't have toxic. Does this mean that every candy or food that is green, not naturally, has toxic? The first thought that came to my mind was poison ivy. It is green and is toxic. So I started realizing so many things in a house are green and that most of them can be toxic. I think that now, most of the things aren't toxic because people know now that green arsenic is toxic. I hope I don't get poisoned!

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