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ARSINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does arsine mean?
• ARSINE (noun)
The noun ARSINE has 1 sense:
1. a poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare
Familiarity information: ARSINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("arsine" is a kind of...):
gas (a fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely)
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