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II. WHO Task Group on Environmental Health Criteria for Arsenic and Arsenic Compounds ... ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CRITERIA FOR ARSENIC AND ARSENIC COMPOUNDS ... 2.2 Chemical and physical properties of arsenic compounds...
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www.inchem.org/documents/ehc/ehc/ehc224.htm
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Irritant and vesicant arsenic compounds, such as arsenic trioxide and arsenic trichloride, have been known to cause severe damage to the respiratory system following inhalation. Tolerance to arsenic can develop after repeated exposure.
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www.inchem.org/documents/hsg/hsg/hsg070.htm
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Arsenic and its compounds are poisonous as any reader of "who-done-it" books knows. Upon heating arsenic and some minerals containing arsenic, it sublimes (transfers from the solid to the gaseous state, without passing through the liquid state)
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www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/As/key.ht...
www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/As/key.html
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Inorganic arsenic compounds are mainly used to preserve wood. Copper chromated arsenate (CCA) is used to make “pressure-treated” lumber. CCA is no longer used in the U.S. for residential uses; it is still used in industrial applications.
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www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts2.html
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Arsenic and compounds - Substance fact sheet (PDF - 728 KB) ... Australia's arsenic and compounds emission report ... Cover of Arsenic and compounds fact sheet...
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www.npi.gov.au/database/substance-info/profiles/11.html
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The general guidelines contained in this document apply to all of the organic compounds of arsenic. Examples of such compounds include arsanilic acid and cacodylic acid. For illustrative purposes, the physical and chemical properties of these organic arsenic compounds are presented below.
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www.osha.gov/SLTC/healthguidelines/arsenic/recognition....
www.osha.gov/SLTC/healthguidelines/arsenic/recognition.html
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Arsenic Compounds, Inorganic*; Known to be a human carcinogen; First Listed in the First Annual Report on Carcinogens (1980); Carcinogenicity; Inorganic arsenic compounds are known to be human carcinogens based on sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in humans.
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ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/roc/eleventh/profiles/s015arse.pd...
ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/roc/eleventh/profiles/s015arse.pdf
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Environmental Health Criteria 224: Arsenic and Arsenic Compounds [pdf 1.2Mb] ... Chapter 3 - Sources and occurrence of arsenic in the environment; Chapter 4 - Environmental transport and distribution...
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www.who.int/ipcs/publications/ehc/ehc_224/en/
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Synonyms & Trade Names ; Arsenic metal: Arsenia; Other synonyms vary depending upon the specific As compound. [Note: OSHA considers "Inorganic Arsenic" to mean copper acetoarsenite & all inorganic compounds containing arsenic except ARSINE.]
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www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/npgd0038.html
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