A compound of arsenic and hydrogen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having and odor like garlic; arseniureted hydrogen.
A compound ofarsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; Ð formerly called arseniuret.
The same inconveniences exist if alcohol holdsarsenic in solution, or corrosive sublimate, and many other metallic salts.
We advise that powderedarsenic never be used, because, by volatilizing, it might penetrate the lungs and cause mortal ravages.
Arsenic acid has a very marked action on animal matters; I shall make it known without delay in my second memoir upon gelatine.
I shall give here an example of injection; a corpse is injected by the carotid with from five to seven quarts of the acetate of alumine at 20°, and containing in solution about two ounces (fifty grammes) of arsenic acid.
These gentlemen requested me to repeat the experiments of Doctor Tranchini, of Naples, which consists in injecting a solution of two pounds of arsenic in twenty pounds of clear water, or better, in spirits of wine.
If she had only known which doughnut he would take; Hannah sometimes thought she might have been capable of putting arsenic in it.
The treatment of functional aphonia should be general and local; tonics such as strychnin, iron, and arsenic should be administered; the intra-laryngeal application of electricity usually effects a sudden cure.
Benefit has followed the administration of arsenic and iodides, and the use of radium and X-rays.
In practice, the proportion of arsenic used is 1 part in 20 parts of lime, although it naturally varies a little according to the class of skin under treatment.
About thirty different sulphide salts may be used, but the sodium and arsenic disulphides are the best, as it has been shown that the most rapid loosening of the hair occurs where the quantities of sulphur and alkali are nearly the same.
Mixtures of sulphide of sodium and lime, or red arsenic and lime are now largely used, the former for hides, calf, and sheep skins, and the latter for goat and kid skins.
Seven or eight parts of lime to one of arsenic is a satisfactory proportion, the quantities to be mixed depending on the number of skins to be treated, as a fresh mixture should be made for each lot, or "pack" as the tanner terms it.
White arsenic is also added to the materials of this kind of glass, to promote its clearness; but, if too much is used, it communicates a milky whiteness.
By this treatment, the sulphur and arsenic are soon driven off.
The more important use of this process is to render the mass more susceptible of mechanical division, but it also serves in many cases to separate the sulphur and arsenic that may exist in the ore.
Arsenic produces a great waste in the manufacture of iron, and when alloyed with it, injures or destroys its capability of being welded.
John Brown shivered--there was something so cold-blooded in the suggestion that he might have found arsenic a good thing.
His hand suddenly caught Charley's as he took a cigarette, and he said: "Perhaps I'll find arsenic a good thing yet.
Determination of Small Quantities of Arsenic in Sulphur.
As a less accurate but more rapid method, the ammoniacal solution of arsenicsulphide is cautiously neutralized with pure dilute nitric acid and considerably diluted.
From the weight of the latter the arsenic sulphide is calculated.
From the intensity of the color, or the quantity of the precipitate of silver sulphide, it may be judged if the sulphur is approximately free from arsenic or strongly contaminated.
The arsenicis easily calculated from the quantity of silver nitrate consumed.
All the arsenic present as sulphide is dissolved, and the ammoniacal liquid is variously treated according to the degree of accuracy required.
The author states that, contrary to the general belief, reddish yellow sulphur is more free from arsenic than such as is of a full yellow color.
I'll get an order to have poor old father exhumed, and the doctors shall tell us how much of the arsenic that cursed old hag gave him.
They came to Charing Cross by the same train, but he wasn't with her when she went to get that arsenic from the chemist's.
Many of these vessels are unsuitable for pure food gelatines in which traces of copper, zinc and arsenic are held to be very objectionable.
When dried, moreover, the hides are still subject to the attacks of insect larvae, for the prevention of which the usual sprinkling of naphthalene or arsenic is only an imperfect remedy.
This is a comparatively large amount of arsenic sulphide, and the depilation is considerably hastened; the skins indeed are unhaired after passing through this round, i.
Unhairing is sometimes assisted by the use of arsenic sulphide.
For kidskins a set of lime liquors may be used, and in preference to sodium sulphide red arsenicis employed.
In the first round, which consists of rather mellow limes, arsenic sulphide is used to assist depilation.
When he comes back, finding the wreck and the commotion consequent upon it, he relates a glib tale of other plants destroyed byarsenic from candles, and he never looks honestly into a single face as he tells it!
A new sort of candle, very beautiful to look at, but with a great quantity of arsenic in it," continued Monk.
Several other bodies were disinterred, and in nearly every instance traces of arsenic were found.
It was alleged that the female prisoners persuaded William Neal, an apprentice of the prosecutor, to place arsenic in the food of his master's family to avenge some fancied grievance.
Addington, to whom he gave some of it twice, and, by the experiment made upon it with a hot poker, he apprehended it to be of the arsenic kind; that the powder he gave Dr.
This thrown on red-hot iron does not flame, but rises entirely in thick white fumes, which have the stench of garlic, and cover cold iron held just over them with white flowers; white arsenic does the same.
Her master said further that it was white arsenic that was put into their wine.
I opened the paper very carefully, and found in it a whiteish powder, like white arsenic in taste, but slightly discoloured by a little burnt paper mixed with it.
I saw the doctor try it once at my house upon a red-hot poker, upon which I did imagine it was of the arsenic kind.
A celebrated epidemic of "peripheral neuritis" in the English Midlands in 1900 was traced to the presence of dangerous quantities of arsenic in beer.
Arsenic has been found by English authorities to be generally present in food materials dried or roasted with gases arising from the combustion of coal, and in materials treated with sulphuric acid during the process of preparation.
The belief that mineral poisons such as arsenic or copper might be taken up by grazing animals and eliminated in the milk finds no justification either in analytical or in clinical data.
I have known the arsenicto fly off from a green dress in the form of powder, and to produce, in consequence, ill-health.
Filter and confirmarsenic in the solution by its particular tests.
The allotropy of arsenic and antimony is also worthy of notice, but in the case of the first element the variation is essentially non-metallic, closely resembling that of phosphorus.
Frankland had recognized the analogies existing between the chemical properties of nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic and antimony, noting that they act as tri- or penta-valent.
Mercuric oxide, sulphide and iodide; arsenic trioxide; titanium dioxide and silicon dioxide may be cited as examples.
This applies particularly to strychnin or arsenic on meat.
Besides, arsenic is extremely variable in its effect upon rats, and if the animals survive a first dose it is very difficult to induce them to take another.
An old formula for poisoning rats and mice with arsenic is the following, adapted from an English source: Take a pound of oatmeal, a pound of coarse brown sugar, and a spoonful of arsenic.
Powdered white arsenic (arsenious acid) may be fed to rats in almost any of the baits mentioned under barium carbonate and strychnin.
Arsenic is probably the most popular of the rat poisons, owing to its cheapness, yet our experiments prove that, measured by the results obtained, arsenic is dearer than strychnin.
Another method is to mix twelve parts by weight of corn meal and one part of arsenic with whites of eggs into a stiff dough.
The powders must have got mixed up somehow, and you've given me arsenicinstead of quinine, I'm certain.
Arsenic cannot be completely separated from either its aqueous hydrochloric acid, or from a solution to which ammonium oxalate has been added in excess.
I get frequent colds and sometimes show unpleasant nerve symptoms, but I take a course of arsenic and strychnine every month or so in tabloid form, and this helps me over bad patches.
Am better, bolstered up witharsenic and strychnine.
Indeed on the whole, I should think the arsenic safer, less likely to lead to physical and moral degradation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arsenic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
