arsenic acid

American  

noun

Chemistry.

1. a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, H 3 AsO 4 ⋅½H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of arsenates.

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arsenic acid British  

noun

1. a white poisonous soluble crystalline solid used in the manufacture of arsenates and insecticides. Formula: H 3 AsO 4

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Etymology

Origin of arsenic acid

First recorded in 1795–1805

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arsenic acid

Arsenic acid process for magenta discovered; leading to manufacture of arsenic acid.

From Coal and What We Get from It by Raphael Meldola

From the arsenical waste arsenious acid can be recovered, and converted back into arsenic acid by the action of nitric acid.

From Coal and What We Get from It by Raphael Meldola

The precipitate will contain the phosphorus, together with any arsenic acid not reduced by the sulphuretted hydrogen.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer

Sulphurous acid, we may add, is the predominant smell in a copper-work; but arsenic acid, hydrofluoric acid, and even arseniuretted hydrogen, are not at all unfrequent.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852 by Robert Chambers

It is applicable in all cases where the arsenic exists in solution as arsenic acid or as arsenate of soda.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer

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