arsenic trioxide

English

Noun

arsenic trioxide (uncountable)

(inorganic chemistry) An industrially important and highly toxic oxide of arsenic that occurs as the mineral claudetite; formula As₂O₃ (though in liquid, gaseous and some solid forms it has molecules of the form As₄O₆).

Usage notes

Often colloquially called simply arsenic as the common form in such things as old style rat poison.

Translations

an oxide of arsenic

Finnish: arseenitrioksidi (fi), arsenikki (fi)
Hungarian: arzén-trioxid (hu)
Polish: arszenik (pl) m
Romanian: trioxid de arsen (ro) m
Spanish: trióxido de arsénico m
Swedish: arseniktrioxid (sv) c

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