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Paris green definition

Paris green

a poisonous, bright-green powder made by reacting sodium arsenite with copper sulfate and acetic acid: used chiefly as an insecticide

Etymology: after Paris

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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