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The author is indebted to Professor L. Brewer, University of California, for valuable discussions and guidance on thermodynamic properties of gaseous arsenic species. Professor G.M. Rosenblatt of Lawrence-Berkeley Laboratory kindly clarified various spectroscopic data that were largely generated in his laboratories. Comments by Professor J.L. Margrave of Rice University on electron impact studies of As4 and on the enthalpies of formation of As2 and As3 were very useful in selecting the assessed enthalpy of formation of As3. This work was supported by the U.S. Bureau of Mines and ASM INTERNATIONAL. Dr. Gokcen is the ASM/NIST Data Program Category Editor for binary manganese, lead, and silicon alloys.

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Gokcen, N.A. The As (Arsenic) system. Bulletin of Alloy Phase Diagrams 10, 11–22 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02882166

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