Season 1 · Episode 7
The Apothecary Diaries · S1E7
Aired on November 19, 2023
Science entries in this episode
Revealing Fingerprints
Revealing fingerprints with flour. We explain the chemistry of latent prints and the history of dactyloscopy, born in ancient China.
Silver and Poison Detection
Silverware tarnishes from sulfur, not pure arsenic. We explain the chemistry of silver sulfide and why the silver poison test is a partly-founded myth.