calcium arsenate

noun

1. a white, slightly water-soluble, poisonous powder, Ca 3 (AsO 4 ) 2 , used as an insecticide and as a germicide.

Example Sentences

One of the earliest pesticides associated with cancer is arsenic, occurring in sodium arsenite as a weed killer, and in calcium arsenate and various other compounds as insecticides.

From Literature

The Virginia Truck Experiment Station finds that the addition of two pounds of calcium arsenate to 50 gallons of the Bordeaux used for disease control helps materially.

From Project Gutenberg

Compounds that contain calcium arsenate, for example, may damage annual bluegrass; those containing dacthal and zytron can harm fescues and bent grasses.

From Time Magazine Archive

At backyard cocktail parties, they move off in disdainful clusters to talk about Cuba or Kennedy's war on expense accounts while the antis exchange pointed views on calcium arsenate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dauss King grew a bale of cotton on his Lord's acre, which he did not even spray with calcium arsenate.

From Time Magazine Archive