Salvarsan

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The organoarsenic compound arsphenamine, formerly used in the treatment of syphilis and the first effective antibiotic developed against any bacterial illness. countable, uncountable

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606arsphenaminedioxydiamidoarsenobenzol

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"Silver nitrate solution added to an aqueous solution of salvarsan acidified with dilute nitric acid yields a dark-yellow precipitate which rapidly becomes black."

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