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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>List,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In my high school "Problems of =
Democracy" class, I
was told that before the advent of the Food and Drug laws, canning =
companies
were adding paris green to canned peas to make them look fresh. So =
much
for longing for the "good old days!"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>Here's what I found in a Google =
search:
Paris green, also called Schweinfurt green, an extremely =
poisonous, bright
green powder that was formerly used extensively as a pigment (e.g., in
wallpaper) and that is sometimes used as an insecticide or to kill plant =
fungi;
it must be used with great caution because of its poisonous nature. =
Chemically
it is a copper acetoarsenite that may be prepared from arsenic trioxide =
and
copper acetate. (Columbia encyclopedia, 6th edition,
2002)</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bill Maxim</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=TysonPiano@aol.com
href="mailto:TysonPiano@aol.com">TysonPiano@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 17, 2003 =
11:57
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Green Stuff</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 =
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FAMILY="SERIF">List,<BR><BR> I
recently discovered a green powder spread across the back of the keys =
on a
Winter and Co. spinet. Much of the powder had fallen between the =
keys
and onto the keybed. While carefully cleaning this powder, I =
began to
taste copper, just from a small amount of airborne dust. Paris =
Green
sounds right. Thanks to this thread I knew what to look for on =
the
Internet. It's a copper based poison with arsenic. I =
refused to
work further on that piano.<BR><BR>George</FONT>
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