ALKARSINE

n.. ’r’si2n. From alcohol (Ger,, Alkohol), and arsenic, because It was regarded as an alcohol in which arsenic replaced oxygen. Fr., alcarsine. Ger., Alkarsin.. Syn.: Cadet's O, no; 0%, not; O3, whole; Th, thin; Th, the; U, like 00 in too; U2, blue; Us, lull; Us, full; U5, urn; US, like ü (German). (ee arsenical liquid. Bunsen’s name for a liquid, first obtained y et in 1760, prepared by the action of arsenic trioxide upon pota ium acetate; a fœtid, brown-red, oily liquid, very poisonous: and spontaneously inflammable, consisting of a variable mixture of cacodyl and its oxide. {B, 2, 3.] ALKARVA, n. An old name for the Ricinus communis. [B, 87.]