Arsenic

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
As
Pronunciation
/ˈɑrsənɪk/
Category
Academic & Science
Related Field
Electronics

Examples in Context

  1. Strychnine, arsenic, and opium are poison.
  2. Major treatment methods for arsenic include sulfide precipitation, or complexation with polyvalent heavy metals.
  3. Plants generally absorb and translocate relatively small amounts of arsenic into aboveground parts.
  4. They're as deadly as cyanide or arsenic.
  5. The method of ammonium magnesium arsenate has been used to remove the arsenic from leaching liquor of arsenic-containing molybdenum ore.

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