alkarsin Chem.
(ælˈkɑːsɪn)
[f. alkali) + arsenic) + -in, in reference to its preparation.]
A heavy poisonous liquid, spontaneously inflammable, with disgusting odour of garlic, formed by distillation of arsenious oxide and dry acetate of potash, supposed to be a variable mixture of cacodyl and its oxidation products.
| 1850 Daubeny Atom. Theory vii. (ed. 2) 219 Cadet's fuming liquor also called alkarsine. 1875 Bloxham Chem. 524 Alcarsin has the properties of a base; it is capable of combining with the oxygen acids to form crystalline salts. |