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
Not to poison itself: silver tarnishes from sulfur, not arsenic. Why the old silver spoon test seemed to work, what it misses, and what The Apothecary Diaries gets right.