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Definition of Arsenous oxide

1. Noun. A white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer.

Medical Definition of Arsenous oxide

1. As2O3;dissolves in water to give arsenous acid, H3AsO3; used in the treatment of skin diseases and malaria, and as a tonic; also used externally as a caustic. Synonym: arsenous oxide, white arsenic. (05 Mar 2000)

Literary usage of Arsenous oxide

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of Chemistry: A Guide to Lectures and Laboratory Work for Beginners by William Simon (1898)
"One part of arsenous oxide dissolves in from 30 to 80 parts of cold and in ... This solution contains the arsenous oxide not as such, but as arsenous acid ..."

2. Manual of Chemistry: A Guide to Lectures and Laboratory Work for Beginners by William Simon (1916)
"One part of arsenous oxide dissolves in from 30 to 80 parts of cold and in 15 ... This solution contains the arsenous oxide not as such, but as arsenous ..."

3. Qualitative Chemical Analysis: A Guide in Qualitative Work, with Data for by Albert Benjamin Prescott, Otis Coe Johnson (1901)
"Arsenic forms two oxides: arsenous oxide or anhydride, As 0 (Biltz, Z. ¡>li! ... arsenous oxide is readily soluble in alkali hydroxides or carbonates to ..."

4. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana, James Dwight Dana (1880)
"In the open tube fuses, gives sulphurous and antimonial fumes, the latter forming a white sublimate, sometimes mixed with crystalline arsenous oxide. ..."

5. Principles of Pharmacy by Henry Vinecome Arny (1917)
"Arsenous Acid—arsenous oxide—White Arsenic) It contains, when dried to constant ... Many of the largely advertised rat-poisons consist of arsenous oxide, ..."

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