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- noun Plural form of
arsenite .
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Examples
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The arsenites give the reactions of arsenious acid.
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A thorough spraying of the trees with arsenites within a week after the blossoms fall will do much toward destroying them; and a second application, in about three weeks, will be essential.
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The canker-worm (Fig. 217) and tent-caterpillars feed on the leaves, and can also be destroyed by means of arsenites.
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These combine with bases to form arsenites and arsenates respectively.
A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. Cornelius Beringer 1886
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(arsenites and white hellebore) for chewing insects, as the beetles and all kinds of worms; the contact insecticides, as kerosene, oils, soap, tobacco, lime-sulfur, for plant-lice, scale, and insects in such position that the material cannot be fed to them (as maggots in the underground parts).
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