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Schee·le's green

n :  a poisonous yellowish green pigment consisting essentially of a copper arsenite and used esp. as an insecticide
 
Scheele, Carl Wilhelm (1742-1786),
Swedish chemist. Scheele is most famous as the chemist who anticipated Joseph Priestley's discovery of oxygen. Scheele spent his life as an apothecary, working in his small chemical laboratory in his spare time. He first described Scheele's green in an article on arsenic published in 1775.
 
   

 
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