arsenic trioxide
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
arsenic trioxide (uncountable)
- (inorganic chemistry) An industrially important and highly toxic oxide of arsenic that occurs as the mineral claudetite; formula As2O3 (though in liquid, gaseous and some solid forms it has molecules of the form As4O6).
Usage notes[edit]
Often colloquially called simply arsenic as the common form in such things as old style rat poison.
Translations[edit]
an oxide of arsenic
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