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arsine

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ar·sine  (är-sn, ärsn)
n.
A colorless, flammable, very poisonous gas, H3As, having an odor like garlic and used in chemical warfare, as a solid-state doping agent, and in organic synthesis.
[ars(enic) + -ine2.]
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Noun1.arsine - a poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare
gas - a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely
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Urinary arsenic levels (AsU) were studied only in Polish and Czech children and were measured after arsine generation as the sum of inorganic arsenic and its methylated metabolites (monomethylarsonic acid, dimethylarsinic acid) without notable interference by seafood trimethylated arsenicals (Buchet et al.
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