Definition of Arsenic acid

1. Noun. An acid formed from arsenic pentoxide.

Generic synonyms: Acid

Definition of Arsenic acid

1. Noun. (inorganic compound) A poisonous, white crystalline compound, H3AsO4, formed from arsenic pentoxide and water; it has the same structure as phosphoric acid, and is used in the manufacture of arsenates. ¹

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Medical Definition of Arsenic acid

1. The hydrate of arsenic oxide or arsenic pentoxide which forms arsenates with certain bases. (05 Mar 2000)

Literary usage of Arsenic acid

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1. Arsenic by James Alfred Wanklyn (1901)
"This test is especially applicable when very small quantities of arsenic acid or its salts are required to be tested for the presence of arsenic acid. ..."

2. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"Nitric acid may be determined quantitatively in arsenic acid by titration ... The reaction in phosphoric acid and arsenic acid goes further than it does in ..."

3. Arsenic by Assembly Of Life Sciences, National Academies Press, Assembly of Life Sciences (U.S.), National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) (1977)
"... disodium salt Arsenates salts derived from o-arsenic acid (qv) and containing ... o-arsenates are salts of o-arsenic acid, and m-arsenates are salts of ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1831)
"Hence it is evident," he adds, "that if arsenic acid existed in the mixture, or any of its compounds, the precipitation of the vegeto-animal matter by ..."

5. Elements of Chemistry: Including the Recent Discoveries and Doctrines of the by Edward Turner (1835)
"Arsenic, Acid.—This compound is made by dissolving arsenious acid in concentrated nitric, mixed with a little hydrochloric acid, distilling in glass till it ..."

6. American Druggist (1884)
"Whether the latter was present as arsenic acid was not decided, though probable. In some other experiments with arsenious acid, the precipitate contained ..."

7. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1908)
"Chem., 45, 596) determined arsenic acid by the reverse of the iodometric method for ... oxidation the total amount of arsenic acid. Low (THIS JOURNAL, 28, ..."

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