arsenical
Americanadjective
noun
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Tobacco grown in the eastern Mediterranean countries, where arsenical insecticides are not used, has shown no such increase in arsenic content.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017
Arsenic-contaminated environments have also caused sickness and death among horses, cows, goats, pigs, deer, fishes, and bees, but arsenical sprays and dusts are still widely applied.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017
Only then did the government begin canceling some of the registrations of arsenical pesticides.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2012
As pests evolved resistance to arsenical pesticides and as chemical companies supplanted arsenicals with newer products, arsenicals fell out of favor.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2012
It would not be difficult to create conditions similar to those in Reichenstein and Cordoba by long continued use of arsenical insecticides.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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