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White arsenic

noun

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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... because she dare not; but, unless something happens to prevent her, I am afraid that the seal-cutter will die of cholera—the white arsenic kind—about the middle of May. And thus I shall be privy to a murder in ...

— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling

... dangerous to our class of patients. The common practice of using Paris green and other compounds of arsenic as insecticides for the destruction of potato beetle and other insect enemies of the farmer and fruit grower has had the effect of introducing it into almost all farming establishments. White arsenic is also a principal ingredient in some popular dipping preparations, and poisoning from this source occasionally takes place when, after dipping, animals are allowed to run in a yard in which there is loose fodder. The drippings from the animals falling on the fodder render it poisonous and ...

— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

Words linked to "White arsenic" : trioxide, arsenous anhydride, arsenic trioxide