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🜺 U+1F73A, 🜺
ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR ARSENIC
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[U+1F739]
Alchemical Symbols 🜻
[U+1F73B]
The upright variant, later repurposed for nickel.

Translingual

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Alternative forms

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Attested in various orientations. The upright orientation would later be used for nickel.

Symbol

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  1. (archaic, alchemy) arsenic

Latin

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Noun

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🜺 n (genitive 🜺cī); second declension

  1. (alchemy) Alternative spelling of arsenicum (arsenic)
    • 1701, Johann Christoph Sommerhoff, Lexicon pharmaceutico-chymicum latino-germanicum & germanico-latinum [Pharmaceutico-Chemical Lexicon, Latin-German and German-Latin], page 29:
      Arſenicum diaphoreticum præparatur ex 🜺co fixo
      Diaphoretic arsenic is prepared from fixed arsenic

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative 🜺 🜺ca
genitive 🜺cī 🜺cōrum
dative 🜺cō 🜺cīs
accusative 🜺cum 🜺ca
ablative 🜺cō 🜺cīs
vocative 🜺cum 🜺ca