Poison trap

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As Poison Fang or flour Fang elongated, often repeatedly bent extensions were to furnaces of silver, copper, lead, mercury, tin, cobalt and bismuth from the 16th century smelting referred, in which toxic Hüttenrauch should begin. The precipitated arsenic trioxide ("flour", "poison meal") was regularly removed by hand and processed into arsenic in so-called poison huts .

literature

  • Ulrich Troitzsch : Technical Change in State and Society between 1600 and 1750 . In: Akoš Paulinyi u. a. (Ed.): Propylaea History of Technology, Vol. 3: Mechanization and Machinization 1600 to 1840 . Ullstein, Berlin 1997, pp. 90ff. ISBN 3-549-05634-6 .