Arsenite
a salt or ester of arsenous acid.
Historical Examples
arsenite of soda or Atlas Compound 79 is used in the first layer or two to keep out white ants.
Cottage Building in Cob, Pis, Chalk and Clay Clough Williams-Ellis
The Terchloride, and the arsenite of Potash, are the preparations most frequently employed.
The Action of Medicines in the System Frederick William Headland
noun
a salt or ester of arsenous acid, esp a salt containing the ion A5O33–
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- Arseniuretted
combined with so as to form an arsenide.
- Arseniuretted hydrogen
(def 1).
- Arseno
containing the . a combining form representing arsenic, or arseno group, in the formation of compound words: arsenopyrite.
- Arseno group
the bivalent group −As=As−.
- Arsenolite
a mineral, arsenic trioxide, As 2 O 3 , occurring usually as a white incrustation on arsenical ores.