Useful Knowledge: Volume 1. Minerals

Note 242 — MINERALS. (continued 4)

Reading edition

ARSENIC, in a metallic state, has a bluish white colour, and considerable brilliancy; it is remarkably brittle, is the softest of all known metals, and is somewhat more than eight times heavier than water.

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