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copper arsenite

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noun

  1. a yellowish-green, water-insoluble, poisonous powder, CuHAsO 3 , used chiefly as a pigment and as an insecticide.


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Put that wallpaper in a damp environment, and a toxic mold will form, which converts the copper arsenite pigment into a poisonous vapor.

From Scientific American • Nov. 19, 2012

Scheele’s green is a basic copper arsenite; Schweinfurt green, an aceto-arsenite; and Casselmann’s green a compound of cupric sulphate with potassium or sodium acetate.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various

Examine metallic arsenic, realgar, orpiment, arsenopyrite, arsenic trioxide, copper arsenite.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips

Paris green, used for killing potato-beetles, is composed chiefly of copper arsenite.

From An Introduction to Chemical Science by Williams, Rufus Phillips

When complete solution has been effected the arsenic solution is run off into the vat containing the solution of the sulphate of copper, arsenite of copper being at once precipitated.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884 by Various