Ep 102 Arsenic: Paris Green with Envy
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Is Arsenic in a Reducing Environment?
Arsenic has a high affinity for what are called thials or self hydral groups, so sulphur and hydrogen. This is one way that arsenic can exert its toxicity when it's in its oxidized, pent avalent form. Another probably even more common and more toxic form of arsenic is called arsenate. The trivalent form disrupts a number of our biological processes but not by mimicking phosphate in this s. It just happens to have an effect in our bodies because it's similar to things that our body actually needs and uses, but not because we need it in any way.
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