RT Book, Section
A1 Smith, Silas W.
A2 Hoffman, Robert S.
A2 Howland, Mary Ann
A2 Lewin, Neal A.
A2 Nelson, Lewis S.
A2 Goldfrank, Lewis R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1108437618
T1 Nanotoxicology
T2 Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, 10e
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071801843
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1108437618
RD 2024/04/25
AB Nanotechnology  has  been  serendipitously  employed  by  humanity  for  hundreds  of  years.  Artistically,  gold-ruby  glass  (cranberry  glass),  present  in  the  Roman  Lycurgus  cup  and  later  in  many  church  stained  glass  windows,  owes  its  striking  red  color  and  optical  properties  to  gold  nanoparticles  created  when  a  gold  precursor  is  added  to  molten  silicate  glass.122  Cosmetically,  to  blacken  hair,  the  Greco-Roman  practice  of  mixing  of  lead  oxide  and  slaked  lime  with  water  created  lead  sulfite  nanocrystals  (5  nm),  which  accumulated  in  the  hair  cuticle  and  cortex.371  Martially,  seventeenth  century  Damascus  steel  sword  blades  owed  their  high-quality  mechanical  properties  to  carbon  nanotubes  (CNTs)  and  cementite  (Fe3C)  nanowires  found  within  their  structure.289  Medicinally,  specially  prepared,  “Swarna  bhasma,”  nanosized  colloidal  gold,  has  been  employed  as  an  antirheumatic,  anti-asthmatic,  and  anti-diabetic  in  Indian  Ayurvedic  practice  for  centuries.37