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n.s..

A ponderous mineral substance, volatile and uninflammable, which gives a whiteness to metals in fusion, and proves a violent corrosive poison; of which there are three sorts. Native or yellow arsenick, called also auripigmentum or orpiment, is chiefly found in copper mines, in a sort of glebes or stones of different figures and sizes. Its colour, though always yellow, yet admits of different shades and mixtures, as a golden yellow, a reddish yellow, or a green yellow. It contains a small portion of gold, but not worth the expence of separating it. White or crystalline arsenick is extracted from the native kind, by subliming it with a proportion of sea salt, and is chiefly used among us. It is said to be found native in some German mines. The smallest quantity of crystalline arsenick, being mixed with any metal, absolutely destroys its malleability; and a single grain will turn a pound of copper into a beautiful seeming silver, but without ductility. There is a method practised in Hungary, of procuring yellow and white arsenick from cobalt. Red arsenick is a preparation of the white, made by adding to it a mineral sulphur. There are several chymical preparations of arsenick, intended to blunt its corrosive salts, and render it a safe medicine; but experience proves that it should never be used inwardly, in any form. Ephraim Chambers

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