This section is from the book "Applied Science For Metal Workers", by William H. Dooley. Also available from Amazon: Applied Science For Metal Workers.
Arsenic is used in many metallic alloys, Its various oxides are important ingredients in different dyes. It is employed as a flux for glass, and it produces many kinds of coloring in glass. It is a virulent poison in all its forms, though employed as a medicine in proper solutions, The arsenic of commerce is a white oxide of the metal,
 
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