† arseniciten.
Mineralogy. Obsolete. rare.
F. S. Beudant's name for: an arsenic-containing mineral, subsequently regarded as a magnesium-containing variety of pharmacolite (= picropharmacolite n. at picro- comb. form 1).
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1843 E. J. Chapman Pract. Mineral. ii. 37 The Picro-pharmacolite of Stromeyer (Arsenicite of Beudant) contains three or four per cent. of magnesia, but in other respects resembles the above [sc. pharmacolite].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018).
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