The word “arsenic” is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the element Arsenic, which is a naturally occurring, highly toxic substance. For example, “The use of arsenic-based pesticides has been banned in many countries due to its toxicity.”.
Where DNA of all known organisms is built on a backbone of phosphates, derived from phosphorus, GFAJ-1, as the microbe NASA's boffins found in Mono Lake, California, is known, instead sported arsenates, chemical compounds based on arsenic.
Air quality regulators covering almost 11,000 square miles that are inhabited by almost 17 million people, including residents of Los Angeles, have approved new rules designed to help protect the public from poisons such as arsenic, benzene and heavy metals in industrial emissions.
Potentially harmful levels of metals, including lead, mercury and arsenic, have been found in up to a fifth of Ayuverdic products bought online.
At Bletchley Park, Standen also applauds the film's rehabilitation of Turing, who is thought to have killed himself by taking arsenic in Manchester a year after he was prosecuted for committing a homosexual act in 1952.
By the time you learn exactly what happened with the arsenic you will be intrigued by the intrafamilial dynamic here but also grateful that your own is more straightforward.
"I'm not a doctor, but I know not to drink arsenic," Mann said.
Water-soluble, tasteless and formerly widely available in the form of rat poison and weed killer, white arsenic was once so popular that it was known as "inheritance powder".
Constance, the elder, is widely rumored to have put the arsenic in the family sugar bowl.
The family at issue numbers only three, the survivors of a family arsenic poisoning.
It has turned to the World Bank for help with another problem: arsenic in the water supply of many villages.
Estonia's is clean, Jordan's has a high sulphur content, Utah's is laden with arsenic.
