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Arsenals [fr. arzana, darzena, tarzana, It.], dockyards, magazines, and other military stores. It is a felony punishable by death to burn or otherwise destroy a royal arsenal (The (English) Dockyards, etc. Protection Act, 1772), (12 Geo. 3, c. 24); a felony punishable with penal servitude to be guilty of spying thee; and a misdemeanour to disclose official information as to a royal arsenal. ((English) Official Secrets Acts, 1911 and 1920)...
Arsenic
Arsenic. See POISON....
Nickel
A bright silver white metallic element of atomic number 28 It is of the iron group and is hard malleable and ductile It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite with arsenic in the mineral niccolite and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance Symbol Ni Atomic weight 5870...
Poison
Poison (poison, Fr.; fr. potio, Lat., a drink--applied originally to a medicated drink or draught].The administration of poison or other destructive thing, if done with intent to commit murder, is a felony, punishable with penal servitude for life, or any term not exceeding three years, or with imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years [(English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 11], and so is the attempt to administer with like intent, whether bodily injury be effected or not (s. 14).On a trial for murder of A, by poisoning, evidence of a subsequent poisoning of other persons is admissible against the prisoner, Reg. v. Geering, (1849) 18 LJMC 215; Rex v. Armstrong, (1922) 38 TLR 631; as also of antecedent poisoning, Reg. v. Garner, (1863) 3 F&F 681.Unlawful and malicious administering of poison so as to endanger life or to inflict grievous bodily harm is a felony, punishable by penal servitude up to ten years, or imprisonment; and such adminis-tration with intent to i...
Binarseniate
A salt having two equivalents of arsenic acid to one of the base...
Cacodyl
Alkarsin a colorless poisonous arsenical liquid As2CH34 spontaneously inflammable and possessing an intensely disagreeable odor It is the type of a series of compounds analogous to the nitrogen compounds called hydrazines...
Cobaltine
A mineral of a nearly silver white color composed of arsenic sulphur and cobalt...
Enargite
An iron black mineral of metallic luster occurring in small orthorhombic crystals also massive It contains sulphur arsenic copper and often silver...
Fowlers solution
An aqueous solution of arsenite of potassium of such strength that one hundred parts represent one part of arsenious acid or white arsenic named from Fowler an English physician who first brought it into use...
Geocronite
A lead gray or grayish blue mineral with a metallic luster consisting of sulphur antimony and lead with a small proportion of arsenic...
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