arsenous oxide

Questions about arsenous oxide

What is another word for arsenous oxide?

It depends which arsenous oxide you mean. In the sense “a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer”, the synonyms are arsenic, arsenic trioxide, arsenous anhydride, white arsenic, ratsbane. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of arsenous oxide?

WordNet records no antonym for arsenous oxide. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for arsenous oxide come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of arsenous oxide

• Full entry for arsenous oxideAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for arsenous oxideWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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