| 单词 | flowers of arsenic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflowers of arsenic flowers of arsenic n. Chemistry (now chiefly historical) powdered or crystalline arsenic trioxide, esp. as obtained by heating arsenic-containing ores. ΚΠ 1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. II. 76 The heaviest and most fixed Flowers of Arsenic [Fr. Les Fleurs arsenicales], procured from Cobalt, have likewise the property of giving a blue colour to glass. 1848 R. D. Thomson School Chem. iv. 98 This compound of oxygen and arsenic is termed arsenious acid (AsO3) or flowers of arsenic. 2010 R. J. Raskin Knight at Sea xxiii. 149 ‘Flowers of arsenic’, said Ray. ‘Such a lovely name for murder.’ < as lemmas |
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