element

Arsenic

Elements · Colors & materials

A notorious metalloid of pigment and poison talk. Not antimony, and not orpiment as the yellow ore alone.

  • Arsenic is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats arsenic compounds (sandarach and kin) among mineral drugs and pigments. A Roman-era pharmacological use of arsenic minerals, not antimony and not sulfur.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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