Sentence examples for white arsenic from inspiring English sources

Even white arsenic, however, is benign in low doses.

It becomes poisonous only when it is converted into arsenic trioxide, popularly known as "white arsenic".

White arsenic – or arsenic trioxide – is an odourless, tasteless powder easily dispersed in liquid and with the same consistency as flour.

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".

The arsenic in arsenopyrite and the arsenic impurities in other metal ores unite readily with oxygen when heated in air, forming the easily sublimed oxide, As4O6, also known as "white arsenic".

Arsenious oxide, commonly known as white arsenic, is obtained as a by-product from the roasting of the ores of copper, lead, and certain other metals as well as by the roasting of arsenopyrite and arsenic sulfide ores.

Flaubert wished to close the gap not just between words and emotional truths, but between words and things: the sound of Hippolyte's wooden leg in the church ("They heard on the flagstones something like the sharp click of an iron-shod pole tapping them with even strokes"); the lumbering sway of cattle; the scoop of a hand in sugar-white arsenic.

Cleanup work has begun on the soil at the site — long ago contaminated by the dumping of white-cake arsenic — and capping with fresh soil is to follow.

The green paint contains emerald green and theoretically emerald green degrades into the white degradation product arsenic trioxide.

On the contrary, the most oxidized arsenic species (white line at 11,875 eV) increases in these clusters and increasingly dominates clusters 2 (green), 6 (yellow), 4 (cyan), and 3 (red).

Fashionable individuals removed freckles with lead sulfate and plastered their faces with white lead, vinegar and arsenic for that nice corpse look.