Phthalo green, chrome yellow, cadmium red are lovely, but they come with a pernicious price—all are composed of heavy metals poisonous to humans in varying degrees.
Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Environmentalism - Issue 90: Something Green|Anastasia Bendebury & Michael Shilo DeLay|October 7, 2020|Nautilus
For most Earthly life, phosphine is poisonous because “it interferes with oxygen metabolism in a variety of macabre ways.”
Phosphine gas found in Venus’ atmosphere may be ‘a possible sign of life’|Lisa Grossman|September 14, 2020|Science News
Some newts living in the western United States are poisonous.
Toxic germs on its skin make this newt deadly|Erin Garcia de Jesus|June 23, 2020|Science News For Students
Supertasters are literally born with a tongue that is unusually sensitive to the bitter chemicals found in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, which tricks their brain into thinking that the food is poisonous.
Science of ‘Seinfeld’|LGBTQ-Editor|June 15, 2020|No Straight News
Alcohol and sugar, even in moderate amounts, are not only sinful but poisonous.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze|Lizzie Crocker|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The stench of corruption is settling over world soccer like a poisonous fog, and players are paying the price.
Is Soccer Great Lionel Messi Corrupt?|Jack Holmes|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In Greek mythology, the Gorgon Medusa had the face of a woman and poisonous snakes for hair; her glance could turn men to stone.
Russia’s Freest Website Now Lives in Latvia|Anna Nemtsova|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Other organisms died off in large numbers because oxygen was poisonous to them.
Why Did It Take So Long For Complex Life To Evolve On Earth? Blame Oxygen.|Matthew R. Francis|November 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That said, this particularly retiring writer has received a poisonous gift from the Nobel committee.
Nobel Prize Winner Modiano’s Magical Musical Prose About Paris|Pierre Assouline|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In poisonous doses it depresses the circulation and the nerves generally, but it causes no stupor or insensibility.
The Action of Medicines in the System|Frederick William Headland
Potatoes were not as yet cultivated in New England, onions were not generally, and tomatoes were looked upon as poisonous.
The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, Conn. June 17th, 1907|Daniel Davenport
Nowadays they cannot, being purged of any poisonous element, do harm to the skin that they make beautiful.
The Works of Max Beerbohm|Max Beerbohm
Treachery, or, perhaps worse, a kind of poised—and poisonous—mental judo?
The Planet Strappers|Raymond Zinke Gallun
The Government is monopolizing grain, to make us to pay through the nose for a poisonous bread.
The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 2 (of 6)|Hippolyte A. Taine