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Definition of Arsenites
1. arsenite [n] - See also: arsenite
Medical Definition of Arsenites
1. Inorganic salts or oganic esters of arsenious acid. (12 Dec 1998)
Literary usage of Arsenites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1902)
"Their scruples were treated with tenderness and respect by Michael and his son;
and the reconciliation of the Arsenites was the serious labour of the church ..."
2. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner (1835)
"Arsenites. These salts have as yet been but little examined. ... The insoluble
arsenites are easily formed by double decomposition. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"Most arsenites are decomposed by heat : some give off arsenious oxide, and leave
the base in the form of oxide : but the arsenites of the alkali-metals and ..."
4. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1850)
"Most arsenites, when heated alone, are decomposed; some of them allow the acid
to volatilize, while the base remains; the arsenites of the fixed alkalis, ..."
5. System of Theoretical and Practical Chemistry by Friedrich Christian Accum (1808)
"Arsenious acid united with different bases forms salts called Arsenites.
PROPERTIES OF Arsenites. These combinations were formerly known by the fanciful ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"... were entirely unable to form the green or brown ground color.—Journal Rogal
Microscopical Society. Effect of Arsenites on Caterpillars. ..."
7. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Andrew Miller (1873)
"Arsenites.—Arsenious acid is soluble in solutions of the alkalies and of their
... The arsenites of the metals of the earths (particularly arsenite of ..."
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