Recent Examples on the WebIt gets pushed to such an uncomfortable angle that the arsenate drops out.—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2012 Tawfik wanted to know if GFAJ-1's proteins could at least distinguish between phosphate and arsenate, which are very similar.—Gregory Mone, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2012 The scientists offered the proteins a mixture of arsenate and phosphorus.—Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2012 By the way, for more than 60 years PT lumber was infused with chromated copper arsenate (CCA), a suspected--some say, known--carcinogen.—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2017 As with Zika today in Brazil, a pesticide was widely blamed: tree spray containing arsenate of lead.—Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 29 Aug. 2016
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