arsenic
or suh nik
- n a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer
- n a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar
- In Florida alone, nearly 30,000 tons of arsenic are believed to be at large.
- In 1878 Louis Danval, a pharmacist at Paris was convicted of poisoning his wife with arsenic, after a quarrel.
- An apparent cure of a case of bone cancer by means of arsenic warranted reporting in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.