The present participle of arsenicate; currently treating something with arsenic or creating arsenate compounds.
Present participle form of 'arsenicate,' formed by adding -ing to the verb stem.
Historical photos of farmers 'arsenicating' crops show them casually spraying without protective equipment—the word captures an entire era before we understood that poisons don't discriminate between pests and people.
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