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Lewisite2|ˈluːɪsaɪt|
Also lewisite.
[f. the name of Winford Lee Lewis (1878–1943), U.S. chemist + -ite1.]
A dark oily liquid (colourless when pure) which is a powerful respiratory irritant and causes painful blisters on contact with the skin; 2-chlorovinyldichloroarsine, ClCH:CHAsCl2.
1921Fries & West Chem. Warfare ii. 23 One of the most interesting and valuable of the compounds which would have found extensive use had the War continued, is an arsenic compound called Lewisite. 1923R. F. Horton Mystical Quest of Christ xxi. 223 A new poison gas, called by the barbarous name Lewisite, is of such potency that, released over London by twenty or thirty aeroplanes, it would asphyxiate the whole population in three or four hours. 1937A. Huxley Ends & Means xii. 216 In 1937 the ‘instrument of God for the protection of the people’ was all the armaments existing in 1914..plus arsenic smokes, plus Lewisite. 1938Times 12 Jan. 11/6 There are probably millions of people..who do not realize..that the much discussed lewisite can be dealt with by a scrubbing brush and soap, if treated quickly. 1943[see B.A.L. s.v. B III]. 1970Amer. Rev. Respiratory Dis. CII. 173 Almost one half of the men who had been exposed repeatedly to mustard gas or lewisite before 1945 had a persistent productive cough. |