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Definition of arsenic

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Arsenic (n.) One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals. It is of a steel-gray color and brilliant luster, though usually dull from tarnish. It is very brittle, and sublimes at 356¡ Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usually combined with silver, cobalt, nickel, iron, antimony, or sulphur. Orpiment and realgar are two of its sulphur compounds, the first of which is the true arsenicum of

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Cacodyl :: Cacodyl (n.) Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines..

Arsenical :: Arsenical (a.) Of or pertaining to, or containing, arsenic; as, arsenical vapor; arsenical wall papers..

Arsenate :: Arsenate (n.) A salt of arsenic acid.

Sandarac :: Sandarac (n.) Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.

Zarnich :: Zarnich (n.) Native sulphide of arsenic, including sandarach, or realgar, and orpiment..

Sesquisulphide :: Sesquisulphide (n.) A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; -- formerly called also sesquisulphuret; as, orpiment, As2S3 is arsenic sesquisulphide..

Ullmannite :: Ullmannite (n.) A brittle mineral of a steel-gray color and metallic luster, containing antimony, arsenic, sulphur, and nickel..

Glaucodot :: Glaucodot (n.) A metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic..

Sulphocarbonate :: Sulphoarsenic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, sulphur and arsenic; -- said of an acid which is the same as arsenic acid with the substitution of sulphur for oxygen..

Sulphantimonious :: Sulphantimonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid of antimony (called also thioantimonic acid) analogous to sulpharsenic acid..

Silver :: Silver (n.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the noble metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized, and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7. Specific gravity 10.5..

Mispickel :: Mispickel (n.) Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.

Binarseniate :: Binarseniate (n.) A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base.

Pyroarsenate :: Pyroarsenate (n.) A salt of pyroarsenic acid.

Arsenious :: Arsenious (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, arsenic, when having an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, arsenious acid..

Sulpharsenic :: Sulpharsenate (n.) A salt of sulpharsenic acid.

Pyroarsenic :: Pyroarsenic (a.) Pertaining to or designating, an acid of arsenic analogous to pyrophosphoric acid..

Orpiment :: Orpiment (n.) Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certain technical processes, as indigo printing..

Cobalt :: Cobalt (n.) A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison.

Arsine :: Arsine (n.) A compound of arsenic and hydrogen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having an odor like garlic; arseniureted hydrogen..