Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The univalent arsenic group (CH3)2As.
- noun A poisonous oil, As2(CH3)4, with an obnoxious garlicky odor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dimethyl arsine, As(CH3)2, a metalloid radical, a compound of arsenic, hydrogen, and carbon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) Alkarsin; a colorless, poisonous, arsenical liquid, As2(CH3)4, spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor. It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun chemistry The
dimethyl arsine radical (CH3)2As- - noun chemistry
tetramethyl diarsine formally derived from two of these radicals; an evil-smellingliquid thatspontaneously combusts in air
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a poisonous oily liquid with a garlicky odor composed of 2 cacodyl groups; undergoes spontaneous combustion in dry air
- noun the univalent group derived from arsine
Etymologies
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Not to confuse with cacodyl, a poisonous, oily, flammable liquid which contains arsenic and smells like garlic.
Deborah Jiang Stein: Who Says Tough Girls Don't Wear Tutus? Deborah Jiang Stein 2011
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Early in his career Bunsen did research in organic chemistry, which cost him the use of his right eye when an arsenic compound, cacodyl cyanide, exploded.
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In 1858, in Berlin, he received his doctorate for his work on cacodyl compounds which had been done in Kekulé's laboratory.
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Simultaneously with his work on cacodyl, he was studying the composition of the gases given off from blast furnaces.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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The first research by which attention was drawn to Bunsen's abilities was concerned with the cacodyl compounds (see ARSENIC), though he had already, in 1834, discovered the virtues of freshly precipitated hydrated ferric oxide as an antidote to arsenical poisoning.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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"After that accident I believe the work on cacodyl oxide and phosgene was suspended and I believe that work was carried out on chlorine or chlorine compounds."
The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ... 1921
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Reliable authority exists for the statement that soon after this date they were working with cacodyl oxide and phosgene, both well known before the war for their very poisonous nature, for use, it was believed, in hand grenades.
The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ... 1921
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German chemist, combined oxide of cacodyl with cyanogen, a radical of prussic acid, producing cyanide of cacodyl, or diniethyl arsine cyanide.
Average Jones Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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It is cyanide of cacodyl, and I have carried that small flask of it about with me for months.
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As he crossed the room some evil chance made him think of the gossip outside and of his allusion to the abstruse substance known as cacodyl.
The Firm of Girdlestone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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