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Arsenic

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Biological Monitoring of Toxic Metals

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Abstract

Arsenic is classified as a metalloid and exhibits both metallic and nonmetallic properties and thus a wide range of chemical reactivity. It may appear with a valency of −3, 0, +3 or +5. Arsenic is present in rocks, ores, e.g. in the sulfides realgar (AS4S4) and orpiment (As2S3), and as arsenides and sulfarsenides of heavy metals. Arsenopyrite (FeSAs, mispickel) is the most common arsenic-containing mineral. Arsenic is rarely found in elemental form.

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Vahter, M.E. (1988). Arsenic. In: Clarkson, T.W., Friberg, L., Nordberg, G.F., Sager, P.R. (eds) Biological Monitoring of Toxic Metals. Rochester Series on Environmental Toxicity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0961-1_12

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