33

ASb

Antimony
74.92160 (2)
 Historical Information

Arsenic compounds were mined by the early Chinese, Greek and Egyptian civilisations. No doubt they discovered its toxic properties early on.

Basic Information Shells
  • Name:Arsenic
  • Symbol: Ar
  • Atomic number: 33
  • Atomic weight:74.92160 (2)
  • Standard state: solid at 298 K
  • Group in periodic table: 15
  • Group name: none
  • Period in periodic table: 4
  • Block in periodic table: p-block
  • Classification: Semi-metallic
 Arsenic
Uses Trivia
  • bronzing
  • pyrotechnics
  • hardening and improving the sphericity of shot

Arsenic and its compounds are poisonous as any reader of "who-done-it" books knows. Upon heating arsenic and some minerals containing arsenic, it sublimes (transfers from the solid to the gaseous state, without passing through the liquid state).