Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A colorless, flammable, very poisonous gas, AsH3, having an odor like garlic and used in chemical warfare, as a solid-state doping agent, and in organic synthesis.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Arseniureted hydrogen (which see, under arseniureted).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) A compound of arsenic and hydrogen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having an odor like garlic; arseniureted hydrogen.

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  • noun inorganic chemistry, uncountable A compound of arsenic and hydrogen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having an odor like garlic.
  • noun organic chemistry, countable Any organic derivative of this compound, or of diarsane, triarsane etc.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[ars(enic) + –ine.]

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  • Such materials should not be used in preparing hydrogen, since the arsenic present combines with a portion of the hydrogen to form a very poisonous gas known as arsine.

    An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

  • If a substance containing arsenic is now introduced into the generator A, the arsenic is converted into arsine by the action of the nascent hydrogen, and passes to the jet along with the hydrogen.

    An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

  • If the tube C is strongly heated at some point near the middle, the arsine is decomposed while passing this point and the arsenic is deposited just beyond the heated point in the form of a shining, brownish-black mirror.

    An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

  • The gas stibine (SbH_ {3}) is formed under conditions which are very similar to those which produce arsine, and it closely resembles the latter compound, though it is still less stable.

    An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

  • When any compound containing arsenic is brought into the presence of nascent hydrogen, arsine (AsH_ {3}), corresponding to phosphine and ammonia, is formed.

    An Elementary Study of Chemistry William McPherson

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