arsenics
- plural of arsenic.
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The life of metals is a secret fatness; of salts, the spirit of aqua fortis; of pearls, their splendour; of marcasites and antimony, a tingeing metalline spirit; of arsenics, a mineral and coagulated poison.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
