ARSENICTRIOXIDE

Arsenic trioxide

Arsenic trioxide is the inorganic compound with the formula . This commercially important oxide of arsenic is the main precursor to other arsenic compounds, including organoarsenic compounds. Approximately 50,000 tonnes are produced annually. Many applications are controversial given the high toxicity of arsenic compounds.

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arsenic trioxide

Noun

  1. An industrially important 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).


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