Artist: Zoe Lu

Age: 7

School Name: Creative Einstein

Lead-safety Message: Z is also for Zinc. Zinc helps over 300 enzymes to work in our body. Lead poisoning involves lead binding to enzymes in place of the zinc or iron etc, inhibiting them; it’s reversible because chelation with EDTA removes lead, restoring enzyme activity.

Description of Work: Coloured quilling paper cut, curled, and glued to a board. Lead Safety Message from: https://lead.org.au/lanv10n2/lanv10n2-14.html; https://www.vaia.com/en-us/textbooks/chemistry/fundamentals-of-general-organic-and-biological-chemistry-2017-edition/chapter-19/problem-63-one-mechanism-by-which-lead-exerts-its-poisonous-/ and https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10801957/#