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arsenic acid
noun
- a white, crystalline, water-soluble powder, H 3 AsO 4 ⋅½H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of arsenates.
arsenic acid
noun
- a white poisonous soluble crystalline solid used in the manufacture of arsenates and insecticides. Formula: H 3 AsO 4
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of arsenic acid1
Example Sentences
A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base.
It is easily oxidized by heating with concentrated nitric acid to arsenic acid, and with concentrated sulphuric acid to arsenic trioxide; dilute nitric acid only oxidizes it to arsenious acid.
From the arsenical waste arsenious acid can be recovered, and converted back into arsenic acid by the action of nitric acid.
The filtrate contains the arsenic as arsenic acid.
This substance conducted, and was decomposed; but it contained water, and I was unable at the time to press the investigation so as to ascertain whether a fusible anhydrous arsenic acid could be obtained.
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