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See also: ⚯ and ⧟

🜺 U+1F73A, 🜺 ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR ARSENIC ← 🜹 [U+1F739] Alchemical Symbols 🜻 → [U+1F73B]

The upright variant, later repurposed for nickel.

Translingual

Alternative forms

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

Symbol

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1. (archaic, alchemy) arsenic

Latin

Noun

🜺 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

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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