All lead articles
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FeatureThomas Midgeley and the toxic legacy of leaded fuel
Leaded petrol was around for 100 years, and the campaign against it for almost as long. Mike Sutton reveals its history
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News
Leaded petrol is finally phased out worldwide
One-hundred years after it was first developed UN hails end of an era as heavy metal is banned in fuel in Algeria
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Research
Historical lead from petrol still poisons London’s air 20 years after its ban
Two decades after leaded petrol was banned in the UK, the toxic metal still hangs around London’s dusty roads – and it’s not going away
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Research
Iodine revealed to be killer species that destroys tin-based perovskites
New insights into the mechanism that inactivates tin solar cells could lead to greener, more efficient devices
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News
US food agency targets ‘toxic elements’ in baby food
Strategy will focus on lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium
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Research
Bio-inspired scaffold sequesters lead in damaged perovskite solar cells
System to address environmental and safety concerns also boosts performance
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Opinion
How Flint tapped in to community action
How citizen science and activism can campaign for clean and safe drinking water
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Opinion
Inside Flint’s water crisis
Evidence of lead contamination was dismissed as resulting from a laboratory refurbishment
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Research
Four chemical classes cost US public 270 million IQ points over 15 years
Flame retardants and pesticides linked to over a million intellectual disability cases between 2001 and 2016
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Research
Londinium Romans’ blood lead levels so high they may have lowered birth rates
Heavy metal’s levels were more than 70 times higher than pre-Roman populations
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Research
Bronze age tin from Israeli shipwrecks was mined in Britain
Isotope analysis matches metal to mines in Devon and Cornwall suggesting ancient trade route existed
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News
Warnings on lead in dust released during Notre Dame fire
Hundreds of tonnes of lead are thought to have melted in the blaze that consumed the iconic cathedral
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Research
London soil pollution worst on former Blitz bomb sites
Study links heavy metal enrichment to destruction of housing in 1940s
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Research
+2 lead hydride is world’s first
Organo-lead compound completes +2 hydride puzzle of heavy group 14 elements
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News
Higher lead levels in blood of Flint’s young children
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports levels of lead are of concern
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Research
Lead isotopes track Roman Empire’s water supplies
Analysis reveals damage to the water network after the eruption of Vesuvius and its subsequent repair
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News
Cadmium and lead in costume jewellery prompt concern
Extremely high levels of toxic metals in children’s jewellery is causing alarm among US and Canadian scientists
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Research
Early lead exposure linked to sleep problems
Researchers find lead exposure in early childhood is associated with sleep difficulties later on
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