To treat with or convert into an arsenic-containing compound; to create an arsenate from arsenic.
From arsenic + the suffix -ate (forming verbs meaning to treat with or cause to become). Similar to verbs like 'chlorinate' or 'sulfate.'
When farmers 'arsenicated' their fields, they were participating in what seemed like agricultural innovation but was actually creating environmental disasters that are still being remediated today.
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