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White arsenic   /waɪt ˈɑrsənɪk/   Listen
White arsenic

noun
1.
A white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer.  Synonyms: arsenic, arsenic trioxide, arsenous anhydride, arsenous oxide, ratsbane.






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"White arsenic" Quotes from Famous Books



... grain of blue vitriol given every four or six hours, is said to be very efficacious in obstinate intermittents; which also frequently arise from an enlarged viscus, as the liver or spleen, and are thence owing to the deficient absorption of the lymphatics of that viscus. A quarter of a grain of white arsenic, as I was informed by a surgeon of the army, cures a quartan ague with great certainty, if it be given an hour before the expected fit. This dose he said was for a robust man, perhaps one eighth of a grain might be given and repeated with greater safety ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin



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