arsenical
Americanadjective
noun
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“Anyone who has watched the dusters and sprayers of arsenical insecticides at work must have been impressed by the almost supreme carelessness with which these poisonous substances are dispensed.”
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017
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
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
Only then did the government begin canceling some of the registrations of arsenical pesticides.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2012
These conditions may easily be duplicated as a result of heavy applications of arsenical insecticides.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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