Periodic Table · element
Arsenic
As · Z 33
- atomic number
- 33
- atomic mass
- 74.922
- notation
- As
- group
- 15: Nitrogen
- period
- 4
- state0c
- Solid
- state20c
- Solid
- occurrence
- Primordial
- density
- 5.727
- melting pt
- 817
- boiling pt
- 614
- discovered
- -815
- abundance
- 1.8
- bio class
- Ultratrace
- bio role
- Some marine algae make arsenosugars and one bacterium respires arsenate. Otherwise a poison, and it works by impersonating phosphate.
- ore minerals
- arsenopyrite, in copper and gold ores
- mined as
- By-product
extraction
Recovered as the trioxide from smelter flue dusts, mostly in China; more often it is a contaminant to be disposed of than a product to be sold.
categories
#Metalloid#Pnictogens
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