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Arsenious   Listen
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Arsenious  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, arsenic; as, arsenious powder or glass.
2.
(Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, arsenic, when having an equivalence next lower than the highest; as, arsenious acid.





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"Arsenious" Quotes from Famous Books



... forms two oxides, As{2}O{3} and As{2}O{5}, corresponding to those of phosphorus. Of these arsenious oxide, or arsenic trioxide (As{2}O{3}), is much better known, and is the substance usually called white arsenic, or merely arsenic. It is found as a mineral, but is usually obtained as a by-product in burning pyrite in the sulphuric-acid industry. ...
— An Elementary Study of Chemistry • William McPherson
... inflection: probably poisonous. Arsenious acid, quick inflection: poisonous. Iron chloride, slow inflection: probably poisonous. : Manganese chloride. Chromic acid, quick inflection: highly poisonous. Copper chloride, rather slow in flection: poisonous. : Cobalt chloride. Nickel chloride, ...
— Insectivorous Plants • Charles Darwin


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