Why arsenic is actually dangerous: To our body arsenic mimics phosphorous, which is commonly used to build molecules (like ATP) by your cells. Due to this mimicing (which comes from an identical amount of valence electrons) your cells might axidentally use Arsenic in place of Phosphorous in those molecules. But where is the problem with that? Well, since Arsenic has one more filled electron shell, the valence electrons sit further away from the core, which makes it attract electrons weaker (bonds formed are weaker and more likely to break), which leads to your body building essential molecules out of trash, so they collapse after construction, which causes your metabolism to slowly die off. Just in case you were interested
I love the fact that we're not really complex biological lifeforms, but rather just massive, biochemical domino towers that can tumble down any moment if the right amount of the wrong chemical key is inserted in a matching keyhole. Our bodies are wonderful, but also, like most biochemistry, extremely delicate and not at all intelligent. Btw, to anyone reading this thinking "wtf is a chemical key and keyhole" the simplest explanation is that your bodys cells have certain receptors that only open for certain chemical structures that are formed a specific way. This is what makes poison work, but also what makes medicine work. Most modern medicine is still just the active ingredients of medical plants, but they're isolated, multiplied for greater effect and placed within a chalk pill, because your body won't be damaged by a bit of extra calcium carbonate (aka chalk. Or what your bones are made of). Viruses also use this key and keyhole thing to trick cells to open up so they can get inside. One of the reasons why Covid hit so hard, is because it is notoriously good at matching a vast majority of these keyholes with fake keys on the surface of its protein shell. Which is a problem because unlike bacteria, we cannot kill viruses as they simply aren't alive. They're just pieces of genetic code that will reprogram your cells into virus factories, before sending out more copies of itself to infect more and more of your cells, until your immune system either figures out how to destroy it or until your body shuts down because its essential organs have been reprogrammed to virus factories instead of doing what they're supposed to do. Luckily our cells have a default response to being invaded, which is to send out a hormone that tells the immune system they've been infected, so they can come and kill off the cell. Unluckily for us, a lot of viruses (especially the Corona virus that causes Covid) are great at suppressing these hormonal releases, meaning it takes longer for our immune systems to discover that something is wrong, as more cells need to be infected in order to generate a strong enough signal to make the immune system respond. However when they do, they usually form antibodies that make them able to recognize if the same or a similar virus infects the body in the future. That's where preventative measures like vaccines come into play as the modern approach usually is to deactivate the infectious part of a virus, before injecting it into patients. Because viruses aren't alive, there's no chance for the virus itself to reactivate and if you get sick, its simply your immune system responding a bit harder than normal to the injected foreign genetic code and it now not only fights a deactivated virus, but it also develops a lot more antibodies. So although it sucks, you're (most likely) not in danger and you got yourself an immune system that is really, _really_ attentive towards foreign biochemistry. I would not complain about that. Except when we're talking allergies, as that's your immune system freaking out over foreign chemistry that isn't at all harmful to the body. See what I mean about the biochemistry of our bodies not being inherently intelligent? Also, it is possible for your immune system to raise the temperature of your body so much that you die. Not from the disease itself, but from your body trying to fight the disease. This is why hospitalization is important if experiencing serious illness, as they can manage the symptoms of your body fighting the disease which would normally escalate to higher temperatures. They can't do much about the temperatures themselves and they can't help the fight anymore than giving your body a steady stream of vital nutrients, water, sugar, salt, other minerals and whatever it may need to keep the fight going. Most of the time that is enough to save peoples lives, but sometimes its just not enough. Modern medicine is great, but it isn't advanced enough to be magical. It can't do much more to treat you than treating your symptoms themselves and leaving your body to fight the actual fight. Still, that is often more than enough as the body then gets to focus on fighting the actual fight, rather than also having to focus on managing all the symptoms. Your body is a warrior as long as you take care of it. So take care. Live long. Life is beautiful.
That’s not what she said. She said it was one of the deadliest OIL PAINTS. Compared to all other poisons, it isn’t that deadly. Which is why it was a problem…it was safe enough that it could be used throughout the home: in wallpaper, in books, as an insecticide and rat poison…except when it wasn’t, usually due to chronic exposure in damp and closed rooms. Also, most deaths due to it were from intentional ingestion to commit suicide. Which sounds like a desperate and very painful way to go…
@MrOffTrail it was not always intentional, there is some rare instances when people have bought old homes and they loved the wallpaper and placed their baby crib next to it. And the baby loved the wallpaper too. A little too much.. 🙄 And died from ripping strips and gnaving on it... ☠ The cool thing is that in mono lake it is a lot of arsenic and some bacteria have used it in their own DNA, it is in place of another element, just don't remember which
Phosphorus. Generally when that happens, look immediately above on the Periodic Table, and that’ll be it. The table is set up like it is so that elements in the same column have similar number of valence electrons, meaning their chemistry is the same. It was noticed long ago that there was a repeating pattern to the elements where they start repeating in similar chemistry, hence the shape and the word “Periodic” in the name. Another famous example is strontium can substitute for calcium in the body…a real problem if radioactive strontium from nuclear weapon fallout is incorporated into your bones!
Nope. It's not. She got scammed. The paint tubes with plastic lids are older than the 1900's it's not from the 1800's. She got scammed or she knows it's not real and is being dramatic. Either way it's not the real deadly paint from the 1800's that was banned.
@DegeN.YNation In damp, humid, or hot environments arsenic green wallpaper and paint will create toxic gas, and it will cause serious poisoning over time. There is one theory that this caused Napoleon’s death, although there might have been a different cause.
Fun fact: This kind of green, together with Scheele's Green was often used on wallpapers in the 19th century. And because many homes were kinda damp and thus moldy, some molds would consume the wallpapers with these paints, releasing toxic arsenic compounds into the air that over time would lead to quite some deadly results.
There’s also a similar colour called Scheele’s green, which also has arsenic! It was sometimes used for food dye by particularly shady sweet sellers, and coloured things such as blancmange, which was popular in Greenock (Scotland). This led to Scots disliking green sweets for a long time, and as a Scottish person, I have never seen a non-modern sweet that is green. Paris green was made to be a more durable improvement. Then Cobalt green was invented, and the Paris green became obsolete as Cobalt green isn’t as toxic :) Thank you for coming to my ted talk :) Edit: final thing, both Sheele’s green and Paris green were used as insecticide in the 1930’s
yes! i love this fact about scheele's green. i recently went on a scheele's green deep dive. did you know that Scheele also discovered oxygen as well as developing this deadly pigment?
just a little addition... tens of thousand of books made during the 18th and 19th centuries that are bound in green cloth or dyed green leathers are also terribly deadly especially since people frequently lick a finger before turning a page
Some people mentioned this below but it needs repeating: The style of the tube, cap, and label writing all indicates this was probably made around 1960 or so, 50+ years after arsenic was banned from use in paints. There is no arsenic or other dangerous chemicals in this paint.
I hate to say you're wrong, but your "Wrong." It wasn't stopped until the 1960s. In fact, on the Wikipedia page for Emerald Green, you can see a can of Sherwin Williams' Paris Green paint from the 1960s which clearly says "Poison", etc, etc. It was also still produced in paint tubes with plastic caps. The key thing is that it was mostly stopped, mostly, is not completely.
@@josephnewsome7393the can in the photo on the Wikipedia page is not from the 1960s. If you search the image, you can find that that can is actually from the 19th century.
It also says 'emerald green tint' on the tube which means it is not actual emerald green pigment. Google states that ""Emerald green tint" paint This paint is a non-toxic alternative to traditional emerald green paint. It's made from phthalo green and white pigments, and is chemically stable and safe."
Or dispose of it properly. At the very least, Bekah getting some heavy metals out of the landfill. While they are typically lined to prevent contamination, they typically also leak. @bekahart: make written plans (ownership/disposal) for what should happen to your collection when you can't be its steward anymore. It is HAZMAT, after all. Hopefully it'll be many decades down the road, but in Engineering, we're taught to be wary of the "Bus Factor" - a morbid fact of life.
That actually happens quite frequently. A good example I know of is what started Ian from Forgotten weapons to start his channel. Back towards the end of WW1 the US military designed the Pedersen device. This device had the ability to quickly convert the m1903 Springfield from a bolt action and large cartridge fed with 5 round clips into a semiautomatic pistol caliber rifle accepting 30 round box magazines. Only a few thousand were made and only a few hundred rifles modified to accept the device survived to today along with a handful of said devices. The military also drafted up designs for a similar conversion for the French Lebel rifle as well however those never went into production. The plans eventually landed in the hands of an American firearms collector. This man however passed away in the early 2000s. After his passing his family went through the collection and discarded many papers they considered trash but were original design documents for many firearms including this exceedingly rare set of documents for the Lebel Peterson device.
@@TheAir2142 is absolutely right! It saddens me to think about how many tubes of priceless paint have ended up in landfills, but it makes me happy that I can save even a tiny fraction of them. :)
So true, it’s just not practical or safe often. When we cleaned out my Dad’s art cabinet we found (among other things) an art deco sterling silver and enamel container of cinnabar pigment from China. Unfortunately we had to put it in the hazardous materials box with all the other stuff because it was corroding and leaking all over the place. Probably should have cleaned out the cabinet before they turned the studio into the auxiliary bedroom for teenagers and guests… I’d been sleeping in the same room as all this stuff 😂
2 things: 1) I want a collection of poisonous and dangerous paints, don't know why 2) I want to paint something so beautiful with them, just to name it Beautiful but Deadly
Historical Note: The paint tube it's contained in was only available after 1850 The white plastic cap however indicates the tube was made no earlier than 1960 so less than 100 years old.
Yes similar with white lead paint but it's important to wash hand very thoroughly after touching it even indirectly doesn't take much for accidental swallow like touching food after touching a painting or brush that has some on the handle and then eating a sandwich. Lead is slower and cumulative though.
@@wushi2694 You wouldn't eat it on purpose, but for many artist it was a common practice to use their saliva to add moisture to a paintbrush. Or think about people who chew on their pen(cils) when they search for inspiration. If you do this with the end of a brush with several spots of paint on it, some paint will end up in your mouth.
@@wushi2694 you never seen a young child/baby lick anything and everything around them? seriously if it was used on say a pencil or child's toy we know how that would end.
Sorry to break it to you, but that's NOT emerald green. First, It's the tint made by Matisson (Uniprise, Japan) labeled "TINT" on the tube, and completely non-toxic.. this brand might not list the binder and Pigment Index number. You are citing actual Emerald Green PG21 (aka Paris green, Veronese green, Schweinfurt green). But a "Tint" is a substitute pigment or blend that simulates the color of the reference pigment. This is done with many toxic or expensive pigments including Vermillion, Cadmium, Flake White, etc... Secondly, the tube is newish with a plastic cap. Even in Japan, true Emerald Green was banned before this tube technology was available. Best of luck finding the real thing.
@@PurePain_1Art historians, legacy paint manufacturers, framers, art refurbishers and renovators and museums involved in archiving art pieces would have access to this information.
I couldn't be trusted with them, I've probably eaten a good few ml of paint over the years from shaping brushes in my mouth and that one time I mixed the glass of water I'd cleaned an airbrush out in with my glass of coke and downed nearly half a pint of black acryllic water.
@@mikkelbreiler8916 Not really it must have only been about 1ml of vallejo surface primer and flow improver into half a pint of water. Also it's acryllic so it was easy to risne out.
She would be perfectly fine if she ate this paint because she got scammed. This paint tube is NOT from the 1800's. It's a replica from the 1900's. The give away is the label and plastic cap. Paint tubes from the 1800's did not have plastic caps
Interesting video. Arsenic containing pigments were banned in some European countries as early as the 1830s, and generally banned as a pigment for paints and inks by 1900. Some artist use continued to the 1930s. Since the 1930s, synthetic emerald green paint without the arsenic has been widely available. In some countries (presumably where its use is not banned as a pigment), continued to make artist paints containing arsenic until the 1960s. The colour itself has never been banned. Just curious as to how you know that particular tube of paint contains arsenic, as the cap looks like it is of a post 1930s plastic.
Yeah looking on ebay I see a box of matisson oil paints that by the styling looks like it's at least from the 60s, possibly newer, and the tubes are still using metal caps. The tube in this video could easily be from the 1980s or even newer.
Hi Bekah, I’m not artistic or artsy at all. I find it all very interesting and you channel is extremely interesting and informative. I didn’t know painting colors were so dangerous, explains a lot. I know how dangerous house painting can be due to living in 100+ year old houses almost all my life and my love of doing renovations! My late Husband made me get an asbestos rated mask before he would let me scrape the walls in our house which was multiple layers. I always used fans but he insisted, always wanting to keep me safe! Your channel is so good, thank you for all the great stories!!! ♥️♥️♥️😊
I’m the same way! I am not artsy or anything like that but art absolutely fascinates me! I even took an art history class 💖 I wish I could paint and draw but that is not my thing! I instead, write colorfully and add amazing art to my own words. 🥰
I’m wondering about the label, "Emerald Green (hue)". Doesn’t the (hue) part mean "we tried to make the same colour, but not with the original chemicals?" That’s what I think it means when I shop at our local art store, anyway. Nonetheless, you can’t go wrong just assuming that your paints are hazardous. It’s a good habit.
@@StonedtotheBones13 yes he was so wonderful, I miss him so very much. He knew so much about old houses, he showed me how to restring windows with weights and all kinds of other cool stuff!!! ♥️♥️♥️😊
Her: "A popular auction site that will not be named" Me: "The dark web?" (Edit: Am I the only one who thought that? 😭😭😭, is smth wrong with meeeee????)
WRONG! She would be perfectly fine if she ate this paint because she got scammed. This paint tube is NOT from the 1800's. It's a replica from the 1900's. The give away is the label and plastic cap. Paint tubes from the 1800's did not have plastic caps
tint means a variation of a colour. Doesn't have anything to do with "imitation". Most brands name their colours the same for reference and ease of use.
"means it's an imitation" .... where on earth did you get that idea from? A tint is a colour plus white. A tone is a colour plus black. A shade is a colour plus it's complimentary, which when mixed just right, creates grey.
It's crazy how a bunch of different channels got a hold of the same type of "banned paint" they found in some old paints they got from someone, all around the same time.
Also, it's highly unlikely that a tube of paint with a plastic lid, relatively modern font, and Japan on its (English) label would be very old at all. Considering that arsenic based pigments were out of favour and widely banned by the beginning of the 20th century, there is about zero chance that the paint in this video contains any arsenic at all.
Fun fact, my art teacher collected these cuz he was “preparing for a zombie apocalypse” and he had a box with 13 of these bad boys, and he said “I bet those zombies will be prepared for guns, knives, and bombs, but not scrub attacks”.
It's soooo pretty. 😍😍 I love turquoise and all shades inbetween green and blue, just looking at the colour I would love to paint a wall or two with it.
The MATTISON oil paint Emerald Green from Uniprise was first sold in 2022. The pigment is known for its distinctive bright blue-green color and has a rich history dating back to its original production in 1814. The modern version of this pigment avoids the toxic arsenic that characterized the historical emerald green paints. But idea is great and I liked the video :)
Also it uses a plastic lid. consumer plastic is a recent thing mostly used from the 1950 and 1960 to present day. Long after many toxic materials have been banned so this definitely is safe paint.
Heyo! As someone who handles arsenic on the daily, just make sure you disposed of your sample safely! The pose a severe environmental hazard and require a specialized disposal procedure. If you plan to use this paint sample again in the future, I recommend getting medical grade gloves, at least two layers, swapped out every 30 mins and, of course, hand washing. (I genuinely don't mean to be patronizing if you already know 😅) Otherwise, thank you for showing us this piece of art history!
@clankclankimatank Yes, after about 30 minutes of exposure. The risk then increases from there and it's highly recommened to change gloves after two hours. There's also always the risk that gloves have some sort of defect (micro or otherwise). Wearing two layers, although limits mobility a touch, is just generally safer.
There are dozens of other trivial names, e.g. Scheele's green or Schweinfurt green. These were all green pigments produced with arsenic acid. The funny thing is that after they were banned as paints, the pigments continued to be used as insecticides in agriculture for decades because of their arsenic concentration, at least in Germany. The connection between poison and green also depends on this.
Fun fact. It's why those wood telephone poles and pressure treated lumber are green. Both are treated with arsenic under extreme pressure to drive the comical deep into the wood.
I thought it was going to be scheele's green, it fits every description you gave, im quite surprised there is another arsenic laden green pigment out of Germany in the Victorian era
That respirator wasn't really necessary, unless you were planning on heating the paint up or breathing it in as a dry powder. But since that tube of Emerald Green TINT is probably from the 1960's or 70's and doesn't contain any arsenic, you already knew that, now didn't you? But you got the engagement for your channel anyway, so mission accomplished I suppose.
Literally had a discussion regarding how this sort of pigment is impossible to re-create if you don't have the appropriate license/legislature that allows you to handle it.
You don't need a respirator for this. The pigment is fully bound in oil at this stage. A respirator is for dealing with raw pigment or particularly harmful solvents.
In the victorian times, there were new paper articles depicting a skeleton in a dress. This was because women wearing emerald green dresses were dying. It was because the green dye used on the dresses had Arsnic in them
Emerald green was popular in the Victorian era, together with Scheele's green used in clothes, walls, books, food etc. It's one of the reasons why the victorian era was so deadly
Paris Green is my absolute most favorite color in the entire entire world and nothing is going to change that no matter how deadly it is, I will still love it
I just got an image of her rifling through peoples trash for paint very possum or raccoon like and freezing when they shine a light on her😂😂
You got it, that’s literally my ✨whole personality✨
@@bekahart are you possibly a raccoon
@@bekahartawesome
@@bekahart Never let wargamers near your house/paints. we are worse than raccoons. we sip that stuff out of a coffeecup for breakfast xD
😂
Why arsenic is actually dangerous: To our body arsenic mimics phosphorous, which is commonly used to build molecules (like ATP) by your cells. Due to this mimicing (which comes from an identical amount of valence electrons) your cells might axidentally use Arsenic in place of Phosphorous in those molecules. But where is the problem with that? Well, since Arsenic has one more filled electron shell, the valence electrons sit further away from the core, which makes it attract electrons weaker (bonds formed are weaker and more likely to break), which leads to your body building essential molecules out of trash, so they collapse after construction, which causes your metabolism to slowly die off.
Just in case you were interested
Wooaahh thx :)
I love the fact that we're not really complex biological lifeforms, but rather just massive, biochemical domino towers that can tumble down any moment if the right amount of the wrong chemical key is inserted in a matching keyhole. Our bodies are wonderful, but also, like most biochemistry, extremely delicate and not at all intelligent.
Btw, to anyone reading this thinking "wtf is a chemical key and keyhole" the simplest explanation is that your bodys cells have certain receptors that only open for certain chemical structures that are formed a specific way.
This is what makes poison work, but also what makes medicine work. Most modern medicine is still just the active ingredients of medical plants, but they're isolated, multiplied for greater effect and placed within a chalk pill, because your body won't be damaged by a bit of extra calcium carbonate (aka chalk. Or what your bones are made of).
Viruses also use this key and keyhole thing to trick cells to open up so they can get inside. One of the reasons why Covid hit so hard, is because it is notoriously good at matching a vast majority of these keyholes with fake keys on the surface of its protein shell. Which is a problem because unlike bacteria, we cannot kill viruses as they simply aren't alive. They're just pieces of genetic code that will reprogram your cells into virus factories, before sending out more copies of itself to infect more and more of your cells, until your immune system either figures out how to destroy it or until your body shuts down because its essential organs have been reprogrammed to virus factories instead of doing what they're supposed to do.
Luckily our cells have a default response to being invaded, which is to send out a hormone that tells the immune system they've been infected, so they can come and kill off the cell. Unluckily for us, a lot of viruses (especially the Corona virus that causes Covid) are great at suppressing these hormonal releases, meaning it takes longer for our immune systems to discover that something is wrong, as more cells need to be infected in order to generate a strong enough signal to make the immune system respond. However when they do, they usually form antibodies that make them able to recognize if the same or a similar virus infects the body in the future.
That's where preventative measures like vaccines come into play as the modern approach usually is to deactivate the infectious part of a virus, before injecting it into patients. Because viruses aren't alive, there's no chance for the virus itself to reactivate and if you get sick, its simply your immune system responding a bit harder than normal to the injected foreign genetic code and it now not only fights a deactivated virus, but it also develops a lot more antibodies. So although it sucks, you're (most likely) not in danger and you got yourself an immune system that is really, _really_ attentive towards foreign biochemistry. I would not complain about that.
Except when we're talking allergies, as that's your immune system freaking out over foreign chemistry that isn't at all harmful to the body. See what I mean about the biochemistry of our bodies not being inherently intelligent? Also, it is possible for your immune system to raise the temperature of your body so much that you die. Not from the disease itself, but from your body trying to fight the disease. This is why hospitalization is important if experiencing serious illness, as they can manage the symptoms of your body fighting the disease which would normally escalate to higher temperatures.
They can't do much about the temperatures themselves and they can't help the fight anymore than giving your body a steady stream of vital nutrients, water, sugar, salt, other minerals and whatever it may need to keep the fight going. Most of the time that is enough to save peoples lives, but sometimes its just not enough. Modern medicine is great, but it isn't advanced enough to be magical. It can't do much more to treat you than treating your symptoms themselves and leaving your body to fight the actual fight. Still, that is often more than enough as the body then gets to focus on fighting the actual fight, rather than also having to focus on managing all the symptoms.
Your body is a warrior as long as you take care of it. So take care. Live long. Life is beautiful.
@@Visiopod❤🎉 beautifully said
sounds like you've poisoned people and took notes.
Habe ich verstanden, Danke!
“This is among the most deadly poisons”
“Adds to cart.”💀💀💀
That’s not what she said. She said it was one of the deadliest OIL PAINTS. Compared to all other poisons, it isn’t that deadly. Which is why it was a problem…it was safe enough that it could be used throughout the home: in wallpaper, in books, as an insecticide and rat poison…except when it wasn’t, usually due to chronic exposure in damp and closed rooms. Also, most deaths due to it were from intentional ingestion to commit suicide. Which sounds like a desperate and very painful way to go…
@@MrOffTrail I was quoting a meme she showed on screen
@MrOffTrail it was not always intentional, there is some rare instances when people have bought old homes and they loved the wallpaper and placed their baby crib next to it. And the baby loved the wallpaper too. A little too much.. 🙄 And died from ripping strips and gnaving on it... ☠
The cool thing is that in mono lake it is a lot of arsenic and some bacteria have used it in their own DNA, it is in place of another element, just don't remember which
Arsenic is used by bacteria in mono lake in their DNA instead of phosforus.
Phosphorus. Generally when that happens, look immediately above on the Periodic Table, and that’ll be it. The table is set up like it is so that elements in the same column have similar number of valence electrons, meaning their chemistry is the same. It was noticed long ago that there was a repeating pattern to the elements where they start repeating in similar chemistry, hence the shape and the word “Periodic” in the name. Another famous example is strontium can substitute for calcium in the body…a real problem if radioactive strontium from nuclear weapon fallout is incorporated into your bones!
Her: it's dangerous it's poisonous, it's deadly, you WILL die.
My brain: * L I C K *
Don’t worry Charles Darwin hasn’t forgot about you 😂
Right? Wtf is up with that?
“And now that we *probably* won’t die…”
germany killing people for hundreds of years is nothing new
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@@st0ks67 Oh, well thank you.
Never would have noticed I had that many likes otherwise.
@@emmafrigard5036 lol. also as i was reading this she said it, it worked perfectly 😭
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I understand why that color was popular, it is gorgeous. Deadly and gorgeous.
The princess bride clip and “add to cart” 😂😂😂 Bekah you’re killing me 😂😂😂
Arsenic kills too
Beckah is made of arsenic
YEE I loved that movie
@@JollyWCanimations SAME it was literally my childhood and the humor is just perfect
@@Local_wutheringwaves IKR
That color is to die for.
Nope. It's not. She got scammed. The paint tubes with plastic lids are older than the 1900's it's not from the 1800's. She got scammed or she knows it's not real and is being dramatic. Either way it's not the real deadly paint from the 1800's that was banned.
I thought that was weird, a plastic lid...@@DarkDraega
Tiffany blue
RIGHT??
@@DarkDraega they prob did not have the original lid so used a newer plastic lid, or its exactly like you said
Arsenic: *is a lethal poison*
Artists in the 1800s: *that's some good paint*
As long as you don’t eat it you’d be fine
@DegeN.YNation
In damp, humid, or hot environments arsenic green wallpaper and paint will create toxic gas, and it will cause serious poisoning over time. There is one theory that this caused Napoleon’s death, although there might have been a different cause.
Fun fact: This kind of green, together with Scheele's Green was often used on wallpapers in the 19th century. And because many homes were kinda damp and thus moldy, some molds would consume the wallpapers with these paints, releasing toxic arsenic compounds into the air that over time would lead to quite some deadly results.
Correct good sir, also killed Napoleon he even wrote about how much he lived his beloved green room, and refused to leave even at the end.
Some, but not all, green leather or cloth books dated between 1830-1880 contain arsenic in the covers as well.
Shouldnt have the arsenic be fatal for the mold?
How is that fact “fun”?
@@poisonappleantiques5710 Oh. Uh oh.
I may need to have an antique book tested....
For anyone who doesn't know, if you see this color on very old books or wallpaper there is a good chance it also contains arsenic, so be careful.
Don't lick your wallpaper.
@@artsurfer5448 I can't help it the snozzberries taste like snozzberries
@@tonyrust269 NO PLS STOP
You only contract the Arsenic if you lick it
@@StickyTheStickman183 and even then you would need to digest it. Arsenic is everywhere in minute amounts
fun idea: make the most DEADLY painting you can.
It is the exact colour of every vintage appliance ever i love it
LOL true
Oh no..
There is a reason. They used to paint s lot with that, and not only the walls! ☠️☠️☠️
Despite the name, I wouldn't call that "emerald" green.
@@natecaine7473 Seems like phthalo green's brighter cousin
There’s also a similar colour called Scheele’s green, which also has arsenic! It was sometimes used for food dye by particularly shady sweet sellers, and coloured things such as blancmange, which was popular in Greenock (Scotland). This led to Scots disliking green sweets for a long time, and as a Scottish person, I have never seen a non-modern sweet that is green. Paris green was made to be a more durable improvement. Then Cobalt green was invented, and the Paris green became obsolete as Cobalt green isn’t as toxic :)
Thank you for coming to my ted talk :)
Edit: final thing, both Sheele’s green and Paris green were used as insecticide in the 1930’s
yes! i love this fact about scheele's green. i recently went on a scheele's green deep dive. did you know that Scheele also discovered oxygen as well as developing this deadly pigment?
just a little addition... tens of thousand of books made during the 18th and 19th centuries that are bound in green cloth or dyed green leathers are also terribly deadly especially since people frequently lick a finger before turning a page
I'm from Scotland and it never occurred to me why a lot of our traditional sweets weren't really coloured
That's cool
There's also a gan green. My friend got gan green on his penis and they had to remove it. Some things are worse than death
Some people mentioned this below but it needs repeating: The style of the tube, cap, and label writing all indicates this was probably made around 1960 or so, 50+ years after arsenic was banned from use in paints. There is no arsenic or other dangerous chemicals in this paint.
I hate to say you're wrong, but your "Wrong."
It wasn't stopped until the 1960s. In fact, on the Wikipedia page for Emerald Green, you can see a can of Sherwin Williams' Paris Green paint from the 1960s which clearly says "Poison", etc, etc.
It was also still produced in paint tubes with plastic caps.
The key thing is that it was mostly stopped, mostly, is not completely.
Thank you for saying that. The printing did look that old. But I didn’t want to jump to conclusions.
@@josephnewsome7393the can in the photo on the Wikipedia page is not from the 1960s. If you search the image, you can find that that can is actually from the 19th century.
Okay but even if you're right, I don't think it's worth the risk... she can just suit up to be safe.
It also says 'emerald green tint' on the tube which means it is not actual emerald green pigment.
Google states that ""Emerald green tint" paint
This paint is a non-toxic alternative to traditional emerald green paint. It's made from phthalo green and white pigments, and is chemically stable and safe."
The fact somebody was about to throw it away without knowing it was super rare
edit: AHH TYSM FOR 2K LIKES
I don’t think it matters if it’s rare or not if it can get you killed and you don’t know how to properly handle it or store it
Or dispose of it properly.
At the very least, Bekah getting some heavy metals out of the landfill. While they are typically lined to prevent contamination, they typically also leak.
@bekahart: make written plans (ownership/disposal) for what should happen to your collection when you can't be its steward anymore. It is HAZMAT, after all.
Hopefully it'll be many decades down the road, but in Engineering, we're taught to be wary of the "Bus Factor" - a morbid fact of life.
That actually happens quite frequently. A good example I know of is what started Ian from Forgotten weapons to start his channel. Back towards the end of WW1 the US military designed the Pedersen device. This device had the ability to quickly convert the m1903 Springfield from a bolt action and large cartridge fed with 5 round clips into a semiautomatic pistol caliber rifle accepting 30 round box magazines. Only a few thousand were made and only a few hundred rifles modified to accept the device survived to today along with a handful of said devices. The military also drafted up designs for a similar conversion for the French Lebel rifle as well however those never went into production. The plans eventually landed in the hands of an American firearms collector. This man however passed away in the early 2000s. After his passing his family went through the collection and discarded many papers they considered trash but were original design documents for many firearms including this exceedingly rare set of documents for the Lebel Peterson device.
@@TheAir2142 is absolutely right! It saddens me to think about how many tubes of priceless paint have ended up in landfills, but it makes me happy that I can save even a tiny fraction of them. :)
So true, it’s just not practical or safe often. When we cleaned out my Dad’s art cabinet we found (among other things) an art deco sterling silver and enamel container of cinnabar pigment from China. Unfortunately we had to put it in the hazardous materials box with all the other stuff because it was corroding and leaking all over the place.
Probably should have cleaned out the cabinet before they turned the studio into the auxiliary bedroom for teenagers and guests… I’d been sleeping in the same room as all this stuff 😂
2 things: 1) I want a collection of poisonous and dangerous paints, don't know why
2) I want to paint something so beautiful with them, just to name it Beautiful but Deadly
Wear a hazmat suit or something when you do that
LOL ❤. I'll join you.
I hope you are able to do this as I’d like to see it
A calm or somber scene painted in poisonous oil paints: "Silent but Deadly"
@@-snowiethebunny- when I wet the brush should I use my lips or tongue?
Its crazy how these toxic colours are really pretty and alluring... ❤
Theres a huge difference from "I found it in someone's trash" to "I bought it from an auction site".
eBay she was talking about
This also mushed my brain
It’s so pretty….
UUUUUUUGGGGHH… WHY ARE ALL THE PRETTY COLORS DEADLY!?
Almost every dangerous paint she's shown have been so beautiful, and very unique.
Beauty kills
Because god is a dick.
Hey now come on we've got phthalo blue, benzimidazolone yellow, dioxazine purple... all very pretty. And the names, oh so romantic.
Surely the color can be matched with modern options... if not this is a rare chance to attempt it before it no longer exists in the world.
I would absolutely paint with that if it were real.
I like the "Princess Bride" clip added in! That's class😊
except that in the Princess Bride, the poison is iocaine, not arsenic.
Historical Note: The paint tube it's contained in was only available after 1850 The white plastic cap however indicates the tube was made no earlier than 1960 so less than 100 years old.
yes ... plus, it's labeled as a (TINT). Well, it IS the internet after all.
The plastic lid is such a giveaway. There's about zero chance any arsenic was present.
@@badfish420 How is that true? Is there a reason a tube without arsenic doesnt use plastic caps?
I would assume plastic wasn't mass-produced then@@Mayannaise4
@@Mayannaise4 was banned before the use of plastic caps.
Reminds me of Margaret Hamilton that played the witch in the Wizard of Oz (1939) having to wear green paint high in copper
For those of us who didn't grow up eating paint, arsenic in this form can't hurt you, unless you eat it.
Yes similar with white lead paint but it's important to wash hand very thoroughly after touching it even indirectly doesn't take much for accidental swallow like touching food after touching a painting or brush that has some on the handle and then eating a sandwich. Lead is slower and cumulative though.
WHO HAS EVER EATEN PAINT
@@wushi2694 You wouldn't eat it on purpose, but for many artist it was a common practice to use their saliva to add moisture to a paintbrush. Or think about people who chew on their pen(cils) when they search for inspiration. If you do this with the end of a brush with several spots of paint on it, some paint will end up in your mouth.
@wushi2694 Forgot you were a kid already? Some kids do. I ate cotton sawing thread once as a kid lol 😆
@@wushi2694 you never seen a young child/baby lick anything and everything around them?
seriously if it was used on say a pencil or child's toy we know how that would end.
Sorry to break it to you, but that's NOT emerald green. First, It's the tint made by Matisson (Uniprise, Japan) labeled "TINT" on the tube, and completely non-toxic.. this brand might not list the binder and Pigment Index number. You are citing actual Emerald Green PG21 (aka Paris green, Veronese green, Schweinfurt green). But a "Tint" is a substitute pigment or blend that simulates the color of the reference pigment. This is done with many toxic or expensive pigments including Vermillion, Cadmium, Flake White, etc... Secondly, the tube is newish with a plastic cap. Even in Japan, true Emerald Green was banned before this tube technology was available. Best of luck finding the real thing.
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H-how do you just casually pull this information out-
@@PurePain_1Art historians, legacy paint manufacturers, framers, art refurbishers and renovators and museums involved in archiving art pieces would have access to this information.
@@PurePain_1 Easy when you invent it
Yay! We can lick the paint!
When a woman covers her face and her eyes are still stunningly gorgeous and take your breath away, you know she won the genetic lottery
Her: “This is one of the rarest and deadly oil paints in human history.”
My intrusive thoughts:” Eat it.”
Edit:thx
I couldn't be trusted with them,
I've probably eaten a good few ml of paint over the years from shaping brushes in my mouth and that one time I mixed the glass of water I'd cleaned an airbrush out in with my glass of coke and downed nearly half a pint of black acryllic water.
"Just one lick surely won't hurt. Just one tiny lick. Tip of the tongue, as it were. We must taste it, precious. Oh yes, we must taaaste it."
@@chrism4841 Did your color your tongue ?
@@mikkelbreiler8916 Not really it must have only been about 1ml of vallejo surface primer and flow improver into half a pint of water. Also it's acryllic so it was easy to risne out.
She would be perfectly fine if she ate this paint because she got scammed. This paint tube is NOT from the 1800's. It's a replica from the 1900's. The give away is the label and plastic cap. Paint tubes from the 1800's did not have plastic caps
Interesting video. Arsenic containing pigments were banned in some European countries as early as the 1830s, and generally banned as a pigment for paints and inks by 1900. Some artist use continued to the 1930s. Since the 1930s, synthetic emerald green paint without the arsenic has been widely available. In some countries (presumably where its use is not banned as a pigment), continued to make artist paints containing arsenic until the 1960s. The colour itself has never been banned.
Just curious as to how you know that particular tube of paint contains arsenic, as the cap looks like it is of a post 1930s plastic.
yeah, and have "Tint" written after the color name. My guess it's just like "hue" in modern paints, and there is no arsenic in this tube at all.
And the sans serif font and logo also strikes me as newer.
Yeah looking on ebay I see a box of matisson oil paints that by the styling looks like it's at least from the 60s, possibly newer, and the tubes are still using metal caps.
The tube in this video could easily be from the 1980s or even newer.
it's just a bait for views
Send it back for a refund
My great uncle had a tube of it , which was my favorite color as a kid (it looks like it glows )
Makes me think of the Radium Girls. Using a poison glow paint that killed many.
Hi Bekah, I’m not artistic or artsy at all. I find it all very interesting and you channel is extremely interesting and informative. I didn’t know painting colors were so dangerous, explains a lot. I know how dangerous house painting can be due to living in 100+ year old houses almost all my life and my love of doing renovations! My late Husband made me get an asbestos rated mask before he would let me scrape the walls in our house which was multiple layers. I always used fans but he insisted, always wanting to keep me safe! Your channel is so good, thank you for all the great stories!!! ♥️♥️♥️😊
I’m the same way! I am not artsy or anything like that but art absolutely fascinates me! I even took an art history class 💖 I wish I could paint and draw but that is not my thing! I instead, write colorfully and add amazing art to my own words. 🥰
Thank everything he insisted. Not just the lead to worry about, as we see here.
I’m wondering about the label, "Emerald Green (hue)". Doesn’t the (hue) part mean "we tried to make the same colour, but not with the original chemicals?" That’s what I think it means when I shop at our local art store, anyway. Nonetheless, you can’t go wrong just assuming that your paints are hazardous. It’s a good habit.
@@StonedtotheBones13 yes he was so wonderful, I miss him so very much. He knew so much about old houses, he showed me how to restring windows with weights and all kinds of other cool stuff!!! ♥️♥️♥️😊
Please stay safe❤ and thank God he insisted you wear a mask.
Her: "A popular auction site that will not be named"
Me: "The dark web?"
(Edit: Am I the only one who thought that? 😭😭😭, is smth wrong with meeeee????)
Pitney Barnes label is almost definitely from eBay
ebay lol
i was thinkin craigslist 😭😭😭
I WAS LITERALLY THINKING THIS 🤣🤣
@@OrionGuzman I'm not the only onnnneeee
That Tiffany blue is so nice!!
I'm convinced these shorts are just a cover for her extensive collection of esoteric poisons as an international assassin and/or spy.
fun fact: people would paint their walls with this paint because green was considered a "trendy" color at the time. They also put it on dresses
The walls in both my grade school and high school were all painted that color green
Vermillion. Yes.
Oh her" Friend's"!
are dropping like Fly's!!🪰🪰😂😅
No, "friends" and "flies".
"woah it's so pretty- IS THAT DR STURGIS?"
So pretty.
It’s to die for.
*Buh-dum tish!*
@@KBella_dragonqueen rimshot lol XD
WRONG! She would be perfectly fine if she ate this paint because she got scammed. This paint tube is NOT from the 1800's. It's a replica from the 1900's. The give away is the label and plastic cap. Paint tubes from the 1800's did not have plastic caps
@@artistaticthat’s not what a rimshot is
Your eyes are soo cute!!!
very pretty eyes !
jesus
It says 'Tint' on the tube, which means it's an imitation. Paris Green tint, or hue, as most modern brands lable their imitations.
that paint is from the 1920's. it won't be an imitation because they still didn't know how bad arsenic was back then either
tint means a variation of a colour. Doesn't have anything to do with "imitation". Most brands name their colours the same for reference and ease of use.
"means it's an imitation" .... where on earth did you get that idea from? A tint is a colour plus white. A tone is a colour plus black. A shade is a colour plus it's complimentary, which when mixed just right, creates grey.
this isnt true at all horribly bad misinformation.
@@jess_lol4579so was the cap a replacement? I read a comment saying plastic caps on paint tubes were not even close to the norm back then.
It's crazy how a bunch of different channels got a hold of the same type of "banned paint" they found in some old paints they got from someone, all around the same time.
Also, it's highly unlikely that a tube of paint with a plastic lid, relatively modern font, and Japan on its (English) label would be very old at all. Considering that arsenic based pigments were out of favour and widely banned by the beginning of the 20th century, there is about zero chance that the paint in this video contains any arsenic at all.
Yes it is like the dog that got saved in 10 different ways
It’s gorgeous! I can see why it was popular
Fun fact, my art teacher collected these cuz he was “preparing for a zombie apocalypse” and he had a box with 13 of these bad boys, and he said “I bet those zombies will be prepared for guns, knives, and bombs, but not scrub attacks”.
😂😂😂😂
English writing, made in Japan, definetly post-war, likely 60s onwards.
Agree. The font used seems more 1970’s. Definitely not 100 years old.
It's soooo pretty. 😍😍 I love turquoise and all shades inbetween green and blue, just looking at the colour I would love to paint a wall or two with it.
It’s so vibrant here. For the next month,I’ll probably need anything I see that remotely resembles this color.
Just look for anything labelled as "turquoise". That's literally just medium turquoise.
@@ligeiasiren4290 Yeah it also resembles what I've heard some people call seafoam green
It’s a beautiful color. All the deadly ones you have shone are just gorgeous.
The MATTISON oil paint Emerald Green from Uniprise was first sold in 2022. The pigment is known for its distinctive bright blue-green color and has a rich history dating back to its original production in 1814. The modern version of this pigment avoids the toxic arsenic that characterized the historical emerald green paints.
But idea is great and I liked the video :)
Also it uses a plastic lid. consumer plastic is a recent thing mostly used from the 1950 and 1960 to present day. Long after many toxic materials have been banned so this definitely is safe paint.
You should never let such a trivial thing as the truth get in the way of a good story.
@jonasrehnman3856 So everyone should be ignorant because "cool story bro?"
the moment she said "Emerald Green" I knew what was going down
but dear lord that brilliant color!
Despite the name, I wouldn't call that "emerald" green.
THIS REMINDS ME OF RADIOACTIVE BOOKS THAT ARE EMERALD GREEN
Heyo! As someone who handles arsenic on the daily, just make sure you disposed of your sample safely! The pose a severe environmental hazard and require a specialized disposal procedure. If you plan to use this paint sample again in the future, I recommend getting medical grade gloves, at least two layers, swapped out every 30 mins and, of course, hand washing. (I genuinely don't mean to be patronizing if you already know 😅)
Otherwise, thank you for showing us this piece of art history!
Or just some other green paint. It's not hard!
the arsenic acetate salt/oil paint can permeate nitrile gloves?
@clankclankimatank Yes, after about 30 minutes of exposure. The risk then increases from there and it's highly recommened to change gloves after two hours. There's also always the risk that gloves have some sort of defect (micro or otherwise). Wearing two layers, although limits mobility a touch, is just generally safer.
But the 30 mins is the safest gurantee, especially in an uncontrolled environment
That green does NOT contain arsenic at all. It was definately made after 1958. Probably later. It just shares the same name as the old one.
“Y’know, some guys just can’t hold their arsenic” probably one of my favorite quotes from Chicago
real
Every time I see you in my feed, the word paint and the most deadliest is combined and I love it!
I'm glad you finally got your hands on it!!
Everything this woman finds is the deadliest and most rare.
It's actually really beautiful 😮
There are dozens of other trivial names, e.g. Scheele's green or Schweinfurt green. These were all green pigments produced with arsenic acid.
The funny thing is that after they were banned as paints, the pigments continued to be used as insecticides in agriculture for decades because of their arsenic concentration, at least in Germany.
The connection between poison and green also depends on this.
Emerald green / Paris green my beloved
that might be the prettiest green I've ever seen in oil paint
“And now that we won’t probably die…”💀💀💀this had me rolling 😭🤚
Fun fact. It's why those wood telephone poles and pressure treated lumber are green. Both are treated with arsenic under extreme pressure to drive the comical deep into the wood.
arsenic hasn't been used to pressure treat wood since the early 2000s.
@@shawnferguson7477 tell that to ky who still use it to treat telephone poles and railroad ties with creosote.
It's actually a very pretty color!
The explanation of arsenic is so perfect it can even be described in 1 word. Death its litteraly just something that will insta kill you
"Hmm" *adds to cart*
I HAD TO PAUSE TO LAUGH 😂
God why are all the most gorgeous colors DEADLY 😭
I thought it was going to be scheele's green, it fits every description you gave, im quite surprised there is another arsenic laden green pigment out of Germany in the Victorian era
"Although i love history, i don't wanna become a part of it just yet"
but it looks like such a lovely colour! O_O
The "Add to cart" clip had me spitting my drink all over myself.
That respirator wasn't really necessary, unless you were planning on heating the paint up or breathing it in as a dry powder.
But since that tube of Emerald Green TINT is probably from the 1960's or 70's and doesn't contain any arsenic, you already knew that, now didn't you?
But you got the engagement for your channel anyway, so mission accomplished I suppose.
Literally had a discussion regarding how this sort of pigment is impossible to re-create if you don't have the appropriate license/legislature that allows you to handle it.
The “Part of art history” got me…
“Artists only become great when they’re dead” ahh joke
OMG the princess bride clip is so perfect! I love that movie
IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL
"banned for over 100 years" - unscrews a PLASTIC cap.... Well, forget the paint, a 100 years old plastic cap - this is a ultra rare! 😂
Why is this the exact green that happens to be my favorite? Lmao 😭😅
SAME 😭
Its soo pretty!
Nächster TikTok Trend... An grünen alten Gemälden lecken bis jemand ins Krankenhaus muss.
wer will schon an Ricarder Lang lecken
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You don't need a respirator for this. The pigment is fully bound in oil at this stage. A respirator is for dealing with raw pigment or particularly harmful solvents.
The respirator is pretty over the top.
there is a "new" Sherlock Holmes story from 2013. It's called "The green admiral" and that color plays a major role.
Ebay😅
why won't she say eBay?
@@wZem I'm wondering that too 😅
In the victorian times, there were new paper articles depicting a skeleton in a dress. This was because women wearing emerald green dresses were dying. It was because the green dye used on the dresses had Arsnic in them
It's such a beautiful color!
ITS SO PRETTY GRRRRR
Can you also show us how these awesome paints looked like in vintage paintings?
You should make a breathtaking piece of art 😉
looks like the perfect teal for that 90's 'jazz' pattern
I really like the color. Funny how you brought up the Princess Bride 😂
That's wild. Cool video 👍
The color is gorgeous
Emerald green was popular in the Victorian era, together with Scheele's green used in clothes, walls, books, food etc. It's one of the reasons why the victorian era was so deadly
That is a beautiful shade of green
This color is beautiful! Like one of the prettiest I’ve seen ❤
It's so pretty though!
Ok but that color is so beautiful 😢
They'd even wear it on their skin. In their clothes, furniture, wallpapers, et al, they virtually plastered it on everything.
Paris Green is my absolute most favorite color in the entire entire world and nothing is going to change that no matter how deadly it is, I will still love it
your obssession with poisonous/deadly paint amazes me 😄
Oh my gosh, I love the how you put in that scene from princess bride. It’s a great movie by the way
because bugs won't damage the painting....wood pallets also used to or still do contain to prevent insect infestation