n :  a test for arsenic used esp. in toxicology that is based on the formation of arsine (as in the Marsh test) and the production by the arsine of a brown stain on filter paper moistened with mercuric chloride solution
 
Gutzeit, Ernst Wilhelm Heinrich (1845-1888), German chemist.
 
 
 
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