paris green in English
noun
1
a vivid green toxic crystalline salt of copper and arsenic, used as a preservative, pigment, and insecticide.
Beautifully named chemicals like Paris green (copper acetoarsenite), calomel (mercurous chloride), and realgar (arsenic sulfide), proved to be hazardous to the pyrotechnician's health.
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1. The two most useful Arsenical sprays are Paris green and arsenate of lead
2. 19 Worse,[www.Sentencedict.com] the Paris green was killing the trees as well as the gypsy moths.
3. As an insecticide, it was first used against the gypsy moth in Massachusetts, as a less soluble and less toxic alternative to then-used Paris Green.