arsenic
noun
a grayish-white element having a metallic luster, vaporizing when heated, and forming poisonous compounds. As; 74.92; 33.
arsenics
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pluralof arsenic.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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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 M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
