lead arsenate

1. 1.

   a poisonous white solid (Pb3[AsO4]2) used as an insecticide

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Questions about lead arsenate

What does lead arsenate mean?

lead arsenate means "a poisonous white solid (Pb3[AsO4]2) used as an insecticide".

Is lead arsenate a common word?

lead arsenate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.