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arsenics

arsenics is the plural of arsenic.

Meaning of arsenic

Noun

arsenic (countable and uncountable, plural arsenics)

  1. A toxic grey brittle nonmetallic chemical element (symbol As) with an atomic number of 33.
    • The mining industry also had a hand in two other rollbacks. One was a decision to withdraw a Clinton rule that reduced by 80 percent the permissible standard for arsenic in drinking water.2001 April 8, “Environmental Rollbacks”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2022
  2. (countable) A single atom of this element.
  3. Arsenic trioxide.

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Questions about arsenics

What is arsenics the plural of?
Arsenics is the plural of arsenic.

Words near arsenics in the dictionary

  1. arsenicked
  2. arsenicker
  3. arsenickers
  4. arsenicophagy
  5. arsenicosis
  6. arsenics
  7. arsenide
  8. arsenides
  9. arsenido
  10. arseniferous
  11. arsenine

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