arsenic trioxide

English

Noun

arsenic trioxide (uncountable)

An industrially important 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).

Translations

an oxide of arsenic

Finnish: arseenitrioksidi (fi), arsenikki (fi)
Hungarian: arzén-trioxid (hu)

Spanish: trióxido de arsénico m
Swedish: arseniktrioxid (sv) c

Usage notes

Often colloquially referred to simply as arsenic as the common form in such things as old style rat poison.

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