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US
/ˈɑɹsənɪk/
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NOUN
- a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar
- a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer
How To Use arsenic In A Sentence
- It has high ability to adsorb the water-soluble arsenious and arsenic acids and Pb ion.
- This finding is of great concern inasmuch as the protection principle and measures of gaseous arsine are different from the airborne arsenic particulate.
- The most important of these are antimony, phosphorus, tin, and arsenic, with manganese and silicon having a small effect.
- It's a free for all at that stage,’ said Mr Campion pointing out that treated timber alone can contain poisonous arsenic.
- State records indicate there is considerable groundwater degradation at the site, and that high levels of arsenic and antimony have been recorded.
- The subchloride of mercury, calomel, is the great British specific; the protochloride of mercury, corrosive sublimate, kills like arsenic, but no chemist could have told us it would be so. Medical Essays, 1842-1882
- In all appearance it is impregnated with nitre, if not with something more mischievous: we know that mundic, or pyrites, very often contains a proportion of arsenic, mixed with sulphur, vitriol, and mercury. Travels through France and Italy
- The chief source of the arsenic of commerce is arsenical pyrites, or mispickel, which contains about 45 per cent. of arsenic (As). A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
- He was murdered on September 6 by arsenic poisoning while on a Geruda Airlines flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam.
- It is an alteration product of realgar, native arsenic, and, less commonly, arsenopyrite.
