arsenous

[ ahr-suh-nuhs ]

adjectiveChemistry.
  1. containing arsenic in the trivalent state, as arsenous chloride, AsCl3.

  2. of or derived from arsenous acid.

Origin of arsenous

1
First recorded in 1790–1800; arsen- + -ous

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