A chemical compound containing arsenic and styrene-related components, used in historical pharmaceutical or industrial applications.
From arseno- (arsenic) + styracol (a compound related to styrene). This is a 20th-century coinage combining arsenic chemistry terminology with organic chemistry nomenclature to describe a synthetic compound.
This word represents the era when chemists were systematically combining arsenic with various organic compounds to find new medicines and industrial materials, most of which proved toxic and are now banned.
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