Arsenic

Arsenic is a metalloid.

Toxicity and Precautions!

 * 1) Arsenic and many of its compounds are especially potent poisons. Many water supplies close to mines are contaminated by these poisons. In the United States, the maximum allowed concentration in drinking water is 10 ppb and 5 ppb for bottled water.


 * 1) There is no standard for food, though in 2012 press coverage prompted calls for developing such. [ The People's Republic of China does have a food standard
 * 2) Elemental arsenic and arsenic compounds are classified as toxic and dangerous for the enviroment.
 * 3) Occupational exposure and Arsenic poisoning may occur in persons working in industries involving the use of inorganic arsenic and its compounds, such as wood preservation, glass production, nonferrous metal alloys, and electronic semiconductor manufacturing. Inorganic arsenic is also found in coke oven emissions associated with the smelter industry

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