Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Summary:

          Kean starts off the chapter with cadmium which was deadly to a population of Japan. A mining company leaked a deadly amount of cadmium into the water supply and Japan's people had an actual taste of it. The cadmium caused pain, liver failure, and weakness of the bones. "Poisoners corridor" was explained to be thallium, lead, and polonium. Further, A Japanese scientist, Hagino, argued that the cadmium had been soaked up by rice farms giving credit to the mining company. The chapter moves on to the next deadly element, thallium, and how its terrible death toll was high and painful. But, Kean does go off on how bismuth, an element thought to me poisonous, was actually not poisonous being found in pepto bismol. To end the chapter, Kean lives the life of, David Hahn, a teenager in love with chemistry. He was playing around with a nuclear reactor when he got caught and thrown in jail. He was never allowed near a reactor for the rest of his life.