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achemicalelementthat is verypoisonous, often used tokillrats 砷,砒霜SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesChemical elements - actinium
- alkali metal
- americium
- astatine
- berkelium
- brimstone
- bromine
- calcium
- fluorine
- germanium
- lithium
- manganese
- nickel
- plutonium
- quicksilver
- selenium
- silicon
- sodium
- sulphur
- transition metal
See more results » (Definition ofarsenicfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- All of Mary’s victims apparently died from stomach illnesses, but in fact this condition has very similar symptoms to the deadly poison arsenic.
- Arsenic could be used secretly and provided very little in the way of evidence.
- By the 8th century CE, Arabian doctors had found ways to produce arsenic so that it was clear and had little smell, making it almost unnoticeable and very popular.
- In the 19th century, arsenic was freely available and was often used as a cleaning product.
- People said that Lucrezia Borgia kept arsenic in a special ring.
- Substances like arsenic were commonly found in rat poison, cosmetics that women used, and cleaning products.
- With her back turned, she opened the ring and secretly poured the arsenic into her victims’ drinks.
arsenic| American Dictionarya verypoisonoussubstance, used tokillrats(=animalslikemice, butlarger)andharmfulinsects (Definition ofarsenicfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofarsenicarsenic Results were obtained forarsenic, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, lead, nickel, and zinc.From theCambridge English Corpus It gave off great clouds of toxic smoke, heavy with sulphurous acid gas and tinged witharsenic.From theCambridge English Corpus The heavy metals in the ash includedarsenic, cadmium, chromium, manganese, nickel, cobalt, copper, zinc, and lead.From theCambridge English Corpus As a consequence, the produced whitearsenica#ects red copper by turning it into the white alloy of copper-arsenic.From theCambridge English Corpus There were burns that contained wood that did not have higharsenic, chromium, and copper readings (burns 11, 12, 14, 15, and 19).From theCambridge English Corpus Second, elementalarsenicdoes not combust with copper in alloying as in the case ofarsenicsulfide.From theCambridge English Corpus The highest readings ofarsenic, chromium, and copper all occurred when wood was present.From theCambridge English Corpus Further correlations existed between heavy metals in the ash for:arsenicand chromium; andarsenicand manganese.From theCambridge English Corpus When entered as dummies,arseniclevels increase slightly and then decrease with democratic freedoms.From theCambridge English Corpus When freedoms are entered in linear form, an increase in democratic freedoms reducesarsenicconcentrations.From theCambridge English Corpus The executive orders created national monuments, for example, while the regulations ranged from workplace rules to limits onarsenicin drinking water.From theCambridge English Corpus Oxidation of pyrites releases strong sulphuric acid resulting in the dissolution ofarsenic-bearing minerals.From theCambridge English Corpus This is of particular interest sincearsenicis known to affect signal transduction pathways at nontoxic levels.From theCambridge English Corpus The weak link between copper and botharsenicand chromium suggests that copper is also present in other sources of waste.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/arsenic## |