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arsenic trisulfide

noun

, Chemistry.
  1. a yellow or red crystalline substance, As 2 S 3 , occurring in nature as the mineral orpiment, and used as a pigment king's yellow and in pyrotechnics.


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Origin of arsenic trisulfide1

First recorded in 1905–10

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